On 13/03/2008, Kurt Maxwell Weber kmw@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.