Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-24 Thread Steve Holmes
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:32:16AM +, Mauro Santos wrote: > I guess they do (or they should, never tried it myself) and I also > believe that they ask for the email's password before they can spam mail > everyone. > To add insult to injury some sites require (or used to require) an email > addr

Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-24 Thread Mauro Santos
On 24-01-2011 10:38, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > Somebody should write an imap server to pester such services, like, > keep connections open a long time, pass data only very slowly, > provide lots of random localhost email adresses, etc :P > > Dieter > Oh! that's nasty but I like the sound of that

Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-24 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 24 January 2011 10:41:38 Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > You're welcome. Unfortunately, that's the way the web works nowadays. :-( > Also, at least in dropbox's case I did not remember them allowing > selection of emails, its mainly all-or-nothing (which makes sense > considering the size of the ave

Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-24 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 10:36 +, Peter Lewis wrote: > On Monday 24 January 2011 10:19:02 Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 10:12 +, Peter Lewis wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Monday 24 January 2011 10:06:18 Ray Rashif wrote: > > > > Guys..I don't think anyone has to tell you this but

Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-24 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:32:16 + Mauro Santos wrote: > I guess they do (or they should, never tried it myself) and I also > believe that they ask for the email's password before they can spam > mail everyone. > To add insult to injury some sites require (or used to require) an > email address a

Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-24 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 24 January 2011 10:19:02 Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 10:12 +, Peter Lewis wrote: > > > > > > On Monday 24 January 2011 10:06:18 Ray Rashif wrote: > > > Guys..I don't think anyone has to tell you this but such invites are > > > _always_ unintended. E-mail services have a

Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-24 Thread Mauro Santos
On 24-01-2011 10:19, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:12:06 + > Peter Lewis wrote: > >> It seems to be that >> either someone uploads their entire addressbook to a random website >> (doesn't seem like a clever idea) or else gives the website their >> email password (very bad i

Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-24 Thread Cédric Girard
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:12:06 + > Peter Lewis wrote: > > > It seems to be that > > either someone uploads their entire addressbook to a random website > > (doesn't seem like a clever idea) or else gives the website their > > email pas

Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-24 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:19, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:12:06 + > Peter Lewis wrote: > >> It seems to be that >> either someone uploads their entire addressbook to a random website >> (doesn't seem like a clever idea) or else gives the website their >> email password (

Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-24 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:12:06 + Peter Lewis wrote: > It seems to be that > either someone uploads their entire addressbook to a random website > (doesn't seem like a clever idea) or else gives the website their > email password (very bad idea). It's probably the easiest way to invite your (le

Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-24 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 10:12 +, Peter Lewis wrote: > > > On Monday 24 January 2011 10:06:18 Ray Rashif wrote: > > Guys..I don't think anyone has to tell you this but such invites are > > _always_ unintended. E-mail services have a bad tendency to > > automatically insert contacts into your fri

Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-24 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 24 January 2011 10:06:18 Ray Rashif wrote: > Guys..I don't think anyone has to tell you this but such invites are > _always_ unintended. E-mail services have a bad tendency to > automatically insert contacts into your friends' list, mailing list or > not. So please, ignore e-mails like

Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-23 Thread Christoffer Müller Madsen
Unsubscribed from Dropbox invites for this email. On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Dropbox wrote: > Robson Peixoto wants you to use Dropbox to sync and share files online and > across computers. > > Get started here: > http://www.dropbox.com/link/20.Mud84jNR4I/NjYxNDQ4NTE1Nw?src=referrals_ab_bul

[arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-23 Thread Dropbox
Robson Peixoto wants you to use Dropbox to sync and share files online and across computers. Get started here: http://www.dropbox.com/link/20.Mud84jNR4I/NjYxNDQ4NTE1Nw?src=referrals_ab_bulk6 - The Dropbox Team To stop receiving invites from