Sorry it did that. It said it would search Gmail address book for friends, and it found like 3 people and added them as friends. Then it listed all of my Gmail contacts and asked if I wanted to send invitations and I clicked cancel. So it never should have even sent out invites let alone subscribing people. They should be investigated. I sent them a complaint email: feedback at academia.edu On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:53 PM, John R. Dennison <jrd at gerdesas.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 05:47:04PM -0400, Zachary Uram wrote: >> I did not add anyone's name. It said it would invite friends from my Gmail >> address book. It was clear it was only an invitation. If it did more than >> that then it lied to me and is breaking the law. Sorry you were subscribed >> but I had no idea it would do that. You can verify this by opening up a >> throwaway email account through Gmail, signing up and selecting invite >> friends option you will see it says it is only inviting them not adding >> them. Then it apparently proceeds to subscribe every address. So I really >> did not know this would happen. Sorry again. Seems this is bogus site but it >> sure seemed legit. > > The question is did you top your previous total of 701? > > I've yet to investigate the impact that your actions had on me > personally but I've noticed that I got this nonsense on multiple > addresses, including service addresses. > > I am not pleased. > > > > > > John > -- > Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. > > -- William James (1842-1910), American Psychologist, Professor, Author > > _______________________________________________ > netrek-dev mailing list > netrek-dev at us.netrek.org > http://mailman.us.netrek.org/mailman/listinfo/netrek-dev > > -- Zach http://www.fidei.org