[gameprogrammer] Re: euclid wants to keep up with you on Twitter

On Jan 25, 2008 11:07 AM, Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > For what it's worth, this is probably not his fault directly.
> >
> > I've recieved this kind of email before, and googled a bit on what it
> > was. It turned out that when you register on some/most of these social
> > networking thingies, they ask for your gmail/yahoo/whatever login to
> > "import your contacts", but forget to mention that such a spam will be
> > sent to all of them (yeah, that's true).
> >
> > Quite a piece of shit indeed.
>
> Ok, I'll reinstate him. Thanks for the heads up.

The funny thing is they usually do not allow reciprocal data scraping
as Scoble recently found out:

http://scobleizer.com/2008/01/03/ive-been-kicked-off-of-facebook/

Chris

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