With Hi5 (which I just got invited to) it gives the list of email
contacts but it is easy to unselect all of them before going to the
next phase.
On 09/09/2007, Russell Woodford <> wrote:
> A timely warning for anyone using the social networking sites like
> Facebook, Hi5 or Quechup - and probably others.
>
> WHen you sign up the system asks for either your webmail username /
> password or for the location of your addressbook. Then it simply
> spams EVERYONE in your addressbook with one or more invitations to
> join! I think Quechup is worse because it shares the addresses in
> your addressbook with 3rd parties - but I'm not sure about this. It
> has been talked about on some education mailing lists I read.
>
> These systems usually tell you that you HAVE to share this info to
> join up - but there is usually a way around it. If there isn't, go
> to a different networking site!
>
>
> Russell Woodford
> Birding-Aus List Owner
>
> Geelong Victoria Australia
> http://www.birding-aus.org
>
>
>
> On 09/09/2007, at 4:38 PM, Carl Clifford wrote:
>
> > Tom,
> > There must be a bit about. I received an invitation from Colin
> > Trainor off the OBC news group as well.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Carl
> > On 09/09/2007, at 4:13 PM, Tom Tarrant wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Apologies if you have received an unusual email from me regarding
> > hi5.com
> >
> > I received a similar message from a friend this morning and made
> > the mistake
> > of accepting the offer.......I didn't realise but I unknowingly sent
> > invitations to anyone in my inbox with a bigpond/gmail/hotmail etc
> > account!
> >
> > Please ignore the message (....if it doesn't interest you!)
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
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