Re: But Facebook are not spammers

["Justin Scott" <admin () dtdns com>]

> 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


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