[Dragaera] spam

[Jose Marquez]

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Mark A. Mandel" <thnidu at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Nov 5, 2007 6:24 PM
>To: Dragaera list <dragaera at dragaera.info>
>Subject: [Dragaera] spam
>
>I got this email in my direct inbox as well as via this list. Didn't recognize the name, and decided it was spam. With two copies here, I'm sure it is.

It isn't spam. Well, okay, it kind of is. But I recognize Johne's name; he's posted on Dragaera (and on topic) far more than I have. I suspect that Nextcat is doing something similar to other social|professional networking sites: they provide an API hook into your e-mail, wherein if you authenticate against your Gmail (in this particular case), the site can access your address book and send invitations to people on it. I've seen this on various sites (Shelfari, Facebook, &c.).

Jose


>----- Original Message ----
>From: Johne Cook <johne.cook at gmail.com>
>To: dragaera <dragaera at lists.dragaera.info>
>Sent: Sunday, November 4, 2007 6:40:18 PM
>Subject: [Dragaera] Johne Cook invites you to connect on Nextcat.com
>
>
>Hi,
>I'd like to add you to my professional network on Nextcat.com
>
>- Johne Cook


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Jose Marquez
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