Sometime on Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 02:44:51AM +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray said:
Remember the hulla ballo that was created when someone suggested using meebo? :O
That someone was me. If you really want it, then we can have a nice debate on this, and I can clearly explain to you why it was at all needed.
Why blame meebo? Because its the new kid on the block, and not as big as Yahoo! MSN, or Google? How do you know that the big names are not giving out your ID to some unwanted place?
Please note that this is about giving your Yahoo/MSN info to third party. There's nothing wrong in giving Yahoo/MSN's login/passwd to Yahoo/MSN itself, no matter if its a new kid around the block or an old heavy weight. What Yahoo/MSN will do with your info is clearly mentioned in their TOS.
Tell me onething everybody. What happens if your mail account gets infected by viruses of the sort that keep sending mails to all the addresses in our address book. Its theoretically all right to talk
That is the precise reason why this list does not allow emails larger than 7KB and strips out all the attachments. Most of these kinds of nematodes spread via attachments.
Anurag