Please help me update my address book on Ringo

[Guest guest]

Hi

 

I'm updating my address book. Please below and enter your

contact info for me:

 

http://ringo.com/i?uid=gVtPoe.mHqE-WZDI &

 

I'm using a new, free service where I put in my contact info for you, you put in

your contact info for me, and everyone stays up to date automatically. It's

surprisingly easy and useful.

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Val

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Val Gleave wrote:

> Hi

>

> I'm updating my address book. Please below and

> enter your contact info for me:

>

> http://ringo.com/i?uid=gVtPoe.mHqE-WZDI &

>

> I'm using a new, free service where I put in my contact info for you,

> you put in your contact info for me, and everyone stays up to date

> automatically. It's surprisingly easy and useful.

 

Hi Val!

 

Like I told the other guy yesterday, maybe I wasn't plain enough? It's

easy for you to hand over your contact list to be sold to spammers. That

might not even be all they do. Well leave *me* out of it.

 

Not only that, if you go to that website they could easily plant a worm

or trojan into your computer so your computer would be sending the spam

for them, as you are now to the TCM list. Why should the TCM list

promote ringo.com? The same goes for plaxo, friendster and the others.

 

If it is free how do you think they pay their help and take home

paychecks themselves? Who *is* paying them? Think about that really,

really hard.

 

How hard is it for someone smart enough to be a doctor to manage a

contact list, anyway?

 

Why should anyone help you manage your contact list for free? They want

to *have* your contact list! And then will you complain about how much

spam and spyware you get " after you joined the TCM list " ?

 

Here's a couple other opinions about ringo.com, in case anyone is

interested.

 

<http://lists.virus.org/full-disclosure-0502/msg00558.html>

 

<http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-3513-0-10.html?forumID=104 & threadID=66002 & messageI\

D=784604 & start=-242>

 

<http://www.networksecurityarchive.org/html/Focus-Virus/2005-03/msg00002.html>

 

<http://realitycheck.org.au/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1036 & >

 

 

Regards,

 

Pete

[Guest guest]

Apart from the fact that this is off topic and God knows how it got pass the

moderators in the first place, let me say a few things.

 

Firstly, the contacts program I use, Plaxo, is used by millions the world

over and carries a privacy policy. Now as they are associated with

themselves in business then I think this paranoia of spammers buying up the

email addresses is a little OTT and that the privacy policy is actually

real. Spamming is illegal in the EC and has been for some time. The rest of

the world needs to catch up. Ringo is not a very good program as to update

your contact info you need to join them and download their software whereas

with Plaxo you don't. There are spam programs that search the internet and

harvest emails held on there, no matter where they are, i.e. from this group

as well. And lastly, built in spam filters now take care of 99% of spam and

automatically throw it into the spam folders. So I really don't see where

all this paranoia and delusion is coming from, probably from watching the

X-files too much!

 

Kind regards

 

Attilio D'Alberto

Doctor of (Beijing, China)

BSc (Hons) TCM MATCM

07786198900

attiliodalberto

<http://www.attiliodalberto.com/> www.attiliodalberto.com

 

 

Pete Theisen [petet]

31 March 2005 04:49

Chinese Medicine

Re: Please help me update my address book on Ringo

 

 

Val Gleave wrote:

> Hi

>

> I'm updating my address book. Please below and

> enter your contact info for me:

>

> http://ringo.com/i?uid=gVtPoe.mHqE-WZDI

<http://ringo.com/i?uid=gVtPoe.mHqE-WZDI & > &

>

> I'm using a new, free service where I put in my contact info for you,

> you put in your contact info for me, and everyone stays up to date

> automatically. It's surprisingly easy and useful.

 

Hi Val!

 

Like I told the other guy yesterday, maybe I wasn't plain enough? It's

easy for you to hand over your contact list to be sold to spammers. That

might not even be all they do. Well leave *me* out of it.

 

Not only that, if you go to that website they could easily plant a worm

or trojan into your computer so your computer would be sending the spam

for them, as you are now to the TCM list. Why should the TCM list

promote ringo.com? The same goes for plaxo, friendster and the others.

 

If it is free how do you think they pay their help and take home

paychecks themselves? Who *is* paying them? Think about that really,

really hard.

 

How hard is it for someone smart enough to be a doctor to manage a

contact list, anyway?

 

Why should anyone help you manage your contact list for free? They want

to *have* your contact list! And then will you complain about how much

spam and spyware you get " after you joined the TCM list " ?

 

Here's a couple other opinions about ringo.com, in case anyone is

interested.

 

<http://lists.virus.org/full-disclosure-0502/msg00558.html>

 

<http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-3513-0-10.html?forumID=104

<http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-3513-0-10.html?forumID=104 & threadID=66002 & mess

ageID=784604 & start=-242> & threadID=66002 & messageID=784604 & start=-242>

 

<http://www.networksecurityarchive.org/html/Focus-Virus/2005-03/msg00002.htm

l>

 

<http://realitycheck.org.au/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1036

<http://realitycheck.org.au/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1036 & > & >

 

 

Regards,

 

Pete

 

 

 

http://babel.altavista.com/

 

 

and adjust

accordingly.