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On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de> wrote: |
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> PS @Michael Mol: it is nice for you that you joined Google+ recently, but |
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> are |
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> you aware that they scanned your address book and spammed around about it? |
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> There are some of us who don’t want to be part of any social moloch. |
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No, they didn't crawl my address book, or do anything of the sort. |
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On Google+, I follow people who I believe (or at least suspect) to be |
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intelligent or knowledgeable in technical fields. That includes everyone on |
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the gentoo-user and gentoo-dev mailing lists; you folks are among the |
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highest grade of computer and software geeks I've come across. |
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In the GMail web interface, there's a pane on the right which shows people |
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involved in the conversation. While reading Gentoo-related threads, if I |
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see people listed there that I haven't added to my 'Technical folk' circle, |
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I add them. I _thought_ it was only showing people who already had Google |
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accounts. |
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Apparently, that last presumption isn't true...and as a consequence, when I |
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add people to my list-of-people-to-watch, Google sends them an invite if |
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they don't already have Google accounts. Apologies for any spam, but |
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understand that I have no clear way of knowing whether or not someone has a |
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Google+ account before I add them; people who don't have them simply show |
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up as 'this person hasn't shared anything with you.' |
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:wq |
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