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“Or how much curious and loving attention was expended by the first man who looked hard enough at the insides of trees, the entrails of cats, the hind ends of horses and the juice of pine tree to realize he could turn them all into the first fiddle. No doubt his wife urged him to get up and do something useful. I am sure that he was a stalwart enough lover of things to pay no attention at all to her nagging; but how wonderful it would have been if he had known what we know now about his dawdling. He could have silenced her with the greatest riposte of all time: Don’t bother me; I am creating the possibility of the Bach unaccompanied sonatas” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb, p. 19 HT to Doug Wilson

August 30, 2007

Shelfari = spam?

I keep getting emails from a website called “Shelfari”, supposedly a personal invitation from someone to join an online bookshelf-type site. Googling around, apparently what this site does is harvest your email address book during the sign-up process, and then spams – oops, sorry (jn), sends personalised invitations to – all your contacts. And then sends a reminder when they ignore it.

Just thought I’d mention it here as a warning to anyone tempted to sign up. You may end up annoying a lot of friends and contacts if you tick the wrong box.

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