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   plaxo and my email filter

   

   slim, Dec 8th, 2003 @ 6:40am

   
   

   I'm wondering if any other email administrators are actively blocking PLAXO spam, as I am??
   
   As soon as I heard about Plaxo and did some initial digging, I suspected this company was up to something and warned my users (hundreds internationally) not to install it or we would stop supporting their email client. This was enuf to scare most of them away from this and all other programs that alter Outlook, or otherwise try to use our email clients to further their spooky, so-super-secret-we-aint-telling-you-till-you're-hooked business models.
   
   Drug dealers and outfits like Plaxo work on the same principal. The first taste is free! (Same principal Peapod tried on me and that didn't work out so well for them either.)

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   Re: plaxo and my email filter

   

   Anders Berman, Dec 8th, 2003 @ 8:00am

   
   

   This tool will soon be able to filter plaxo spams llok at: www.thespamwall.com

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   Chris, Dec 8th, 2003 @ 8:51am

   
   

   Not everything needs to be automated.

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   Re: No Subject Given

   

   Anonymous Coward, Dec 8th, 2003 @ 2:12pm

   
   

   But some place to have one's contact niformation always up to date is a good thing, as long as access is controlled enough - that, of coure, requires a centralized authentication - so that you can say "Look. Here's my address, but only Bill, Chris and Sandy can see what it is." and have it stick.
   
   It's another gadget like the fax machine - we don't *need* one, and certainly today we can get by without one, but for a small window in society, it was an absolute essential.

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   Bring back planetall.com

   

   Rick Colosimo, Dec 9th, 2003 @ 12:00am

   
   

   I agree: having your contact info up-to-date and accessible to others is convenient for everyone. However, Plaxo took that idea and turned it on its head, by updating each individual address book rather than just my address in the central registry. Planetall.com, before it was bought by Amazon and disappeared (WTF?), had the low-maintenance model -- you update your address, my Outlook contacts update automagically; no snotty emails telling me subtly that your time is more important than mine.
   Of course, they say that if I become a Plaxo member, I won't receive any more emails. Shades of Tony Soprano!

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   Plaxo

   

   James Tetazoo, Jan 23rd, 2004 @ 1:05pm

   
   

   One strategy is to reply to Plaxo requests with false information.

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   Re: Plaxo

   

   Ken Joye, Oct 19th, 2004 @ 9:24am

   
   

   If I get a plaxo "invite" from someone I have sent a message to, is that because plaxo is working as a spam filter? That is the recipient of my message doesn't see it unless I confirm that I am a real human trying to send the message?

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   Update! - David Coursey - Plaxo member

   

   Stacy Martin, Jun 9th, 2005 @ 6:34pm

   
   

   Plaxo Reconsidered:
   http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1644423,00.asp

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