[Teachldsseminary] ADMIN: Recent list intrusion by GoodReads.com

[Marji]

Tim,
I've gotten several of these in my personal email box, as well (not
through this list).  Maybe some folks have sent out the invite to
everyone in their address file.  Stranger things have happened.  They
have all come through in the same time frame as the ones on this list,
however, so quite likely there is a connection.  My guess is that
someone just clicked the 'send to everyone' button, or whatever they
use, when they were enrolling for the service.

Cheers,
Marji


On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Tim Holder
<webmaster at latter-dayvillage.com> wrote:
> We recently had three messages from GoodReads.com get broadcast over this
> email list. This is spite of our tight controls.  I reported this to
> GoodReads.com and received the following response:
>
> "We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.  The only emails Goodreads
> sends to non-members are invites from one person to another, so it is likely
> someone had you in their hotmail or yahoo or gmail address book.
>
> You can permanently block these invites by following the link on the footer
> of the email, which goes to this page:
> http://www.goodreads.com/user/block_email.
>
> Again we apologize, and hope you won't hold it against us!"
>
> Let me translate for you.  "We at GoodReads.com only mine our users address
> books and SPOOF their addresses when we send out invites, so you'll think
> the invitee is actually sending them.  That way you might actually open them
> and read them.  Even if we practice email bad form, don't hold it against
> us."
>
> I responded to GoodRead.com and called them on their spoofing practice. If
> one of their invite messages reaches the list again, as I promised them, I
> will report the problem to their ISP and their data center hosting company.
> If you belong to GoodReads.com, you should immediately remove
> 'teachldsseminary at latter-dayvillage.com' from your address book. If you are
> responsible for a GoodReads.com invite reaching the list, you will most
> likely by removed from the list.
>
> Thanks for listening,
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Tim Holder, Webmaster
> http://latter-dayvillage.com
> webmaster at latter-dayvillage.com
>
>
>
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