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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:13, Saswata Banerjee scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com wrote:
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
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I'm on 2 mailing lists, in the past 2-3 days I've seen insane number of people sending such requests from god-knows-where. I mean don't people have anything better to do than register on some sites which spam? I cannot comprehend why a person can give out his email id and password to a third party website.
You have not been listening. He did not give his password to the site. He gave the list of email ids to which he wants the site to send an invite on his behalf.
FWIW, from what I know most of this work is done through API's . The API's speak to each other and the whole address book is downloaded to the application. Now its to the user to either click blindly and send it to all or select from the list.
Most people just click blindly as it takes too much time to shift through stuff.
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