Spock Suckage

this Web 2.0 stuff really is getting on my nerves. you are in somebody's network, they play around with some stupid new service and as a result send messages to everybody. you get the message, see the name, play around with the stupid new service, and before you know it (or the stupid new service tells you), you are sending messages to everybody. this must be what always is referred to as viral. highly contagious and not good for the hosts.

so, the latest sucker that got me is spock. my deepest apologies to everybody who was just spammed by me/spock. i just hope you have better immunity against it, otherwise it will spread further...

of course, the most important thing (way more important than anything else, such as decent behavior) for such a service is to gain traction, which translates to email as many people as you possibly can. now, that doesn't sound too well, so spock tells you how you can Add to Trust Network. it does sound like a pretty local operation, but in fact it means spam everybody. so just say no to spock. and again: sorry if i spammed you.

Comments

[yiming]

so which button triggers the "spam-everyone-i-know" function?

i'm starting to get paranoid about allowing anything near my address book.

[dret]

hello yiming: it's the button labeled "Add to Trust Network", so never ever press that button, unless you want to get into the spamming business...

the easier solution: just never visit spock, and ignore any spock messages in your inbox. i will simply add them to my spam filter, once i have waded through the aftermath of my spamming accident yesterday and apologized to all those who received those messages.