[TheForge] Plaxo????

[PlumDon at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/7/2009 1:58:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mspencer at tallships.ca writes:

Somehow, Don or his computer did the wrong  thing and Plaxo will
(possibly) spam TheForge and/or Don's friends until  (unless) he gets
it turned off.
 

What an infuriating and aggravating incident...for which I again  apologize 
profusely to any who have been pestered by Plaxo. 

I received a  plaxo invitation from a very good customer. She is quite 
wealthy and I have done  quite a few thousand dollars worth of custom work for 
her over the past couple  years. I assumed everything was ok and I envisioned 
more $$$ coming. I did two  clicks and next thing I knew they had my entire 
address book. 

I have  deleted any of my account information with them and they claim all 
data has been  deleted. 
 
I rather like Terry's suggestion re the heads on spikes. 

Then I  went through my address book and purged it. It's amazing how 
addresses build up  in there. I plan to be more carefully selective in the future. 
A pity, really,  'cause I would like to keep all contacts. However, I am 
becoming increasingly  aware about how vulnerable we are. I was flabbergasted 
to find out recently that  as long as you have your cell phone turned on 
someone, anywhere, with the right  software, could track every call you made 
and every call you received and listen  and record every spoken work. They 
could also listen in to any conversations  within a couple feet of that phone 
that was on...but not connected to anyone.  Scary! 
 

Don Plummer
Plummer Design Works
392 Hallman Mill  Road
Phoenixville, PA 19460
610-495-5058
Plumdon at aol.com 
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