> if the system provides a prominent one-click "spam > your friends" button, enough people will push it > that you'll get enough new members that you can claim > fantastic growth, hopefully long enough to get some > VC funding and feel rich for awhile before the > hype-cycle runs down?
I got a nice laugh out of that, thanks. I agree this is exactly the case for the vast majority of these implementations. I can't get into the details of their business model, but the client I'm consulting with at present is in a unique position. The people using the system can't use e-mail directly and other means of communications are either prohibitively expensive, very slow, or unavailable. The target users may, however, know their friend's e-mail address to invite them to connect through this application. Under those circumstances, I'm sure one can understand that a feature like this might be necessary. We'd like to implement it in a responsible manner, so I've been fascinated with this discussion. -Justin _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
