[sf-lug] MEGA Invitation

[jim]

     I, jim, had nothing at all to do with this.
     Note that I try to be particularly polite
and responsible in using other people's stuff
such as your machine (of which I am regularly
mindful); my rule is to treat borrow stuff
better than I treat my own, no carelessness
allowed.
     I'm interested in knowing of any clues that
led you to think so.

     Yesterday I got a similar invitation from
someone who knows me only through internet
familiarity, this to join AngelList, which
purports to augment LinkedIn.
     I joined the invite, skipping almost all
the info-begging forms. I'm curious as to what
bad things are going to happen to me from that.



On 07/28/2016 06:57 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting MEGA (support at mega.nz):
>
>> jasonedwardkirk at gmail.com sent you an invitation to join MEGA.
>>
>> --- Message from user: ---
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Please create your free MEGA account by clicking on the following
>> link:
>> https://mega.nz/#newsignupc2YtbHVnQGxpbnV4bWFmaWEuY29tzqPJLeW6CLE
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Team MEGA
>>
>
>
> I'm about 99.9% sure this non-member-sending-address posting --
> initiated by mailing list member Jason Edward Kirk at social media (or
> whatever) site mega.nz, was manually approved for distribution by
> listadmin jim at well.com.
>
> Jim, I really don't think that's a good idea, seriously.
>
> Jason, I think you need to be more careful where you cause
> Web-site-initiated 'invitations' to be sent.
>
>
> I keep a generally hands-off attitude to this list's administration,
> but I _do_ own the machine it operates on, and have an interest in
> preventing its use for propagation of spam.  And that was pretty spammy.
>
>
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