[Wikipedia-l] dan.bolser has invited you to Spokeo

[David Gerard]

On 13/03/2008, Kurt Maxwell Weber <kmw at armory.com> wrote:

>  A lot of these networking web sites have a feature where you can send
>  invitations out to your entire address book.  It's quite possible that this
>  individual had wikipedia-l in his address book and forgot it when he sent out
>  a mass invitation.
>  Really, calling it "spam" is inappropriate, given this.  In all likelihood, it
>  was just an honest mistake.


Of course. When I spoke of "spamminess", I meant the company
encouraging this sort of thing. It's very far from best practice.


- d.