[geeks] subramanya av sent you a Friend Request on Yaari

[Kurt Huhn]

On Jun 19, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, 821 wrote:
>
>> Can someone please ban that email address. Idiot virus filled pc.
>
> Or, more-likely, just a PC run by an idiot.
>
> Quoth the "Yaari" terms of service:
>
>    By registering for Yaari and agreeing to the Terms of Use, you
>    authorize Yaari to send an email notification to all the contacts
>    listed in the address book of the email address you provide during
>    registration. The email will notify your friends that you have
>    registered for Yaari and will encourage them to register for the  
> site.
>    Yaari will never store your email password or login to your email
>    account without your consent.  If you do not want Yaari to send an
>    email notification to your email contacts, do not register for  
> Yaari.
>
> This "social networking" nonsense really could stand to die in a fire.
>

Lovely.  So by signing up for this "service" you get the privilege of  
having your address book farmed for potential new suckers.  I assume  
this is via some annoying bit of snoopware, and probably only works on  
Windows.

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Kurt Huhn
Renaissance Man, Malcontent, Oversized Ostrogoth