Hmmm, has Shelfari restarted its spam campaign on the sly? They caught major flak for it a few months ago. Lying low for a few months and waiting for the storm to blow over, then restarting the spam won’t make Shelfari a lot of friends a second time round. The internet has elephantine memories.

Can’t argue with that. Hopefully most people will have got the message, and will stay clear.

Zohair,

This is Josh from Shelfari. I wanted to point you to a blog post I wrote last fall in response to all the accusations about our invitations.

http://shelfari.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/11/invitation-desi.html

Just like competing sites, we do everything we can to avoid people sending unwanted emails. I’d love to have you checkout Shelfari and tell us what you think!

Happy Reading,

Josh

Well Josh, thanks for the link. Call me paranoid, but I still don’t like the idea of shelfari resending the registration email to people who choose to ignore it. I also second the comments about the opt-out design. Until these things change, I’m staying on goodreads.

This is Josh from Shelfari. I wanted to point you to a blog post I wrote last fall in response to all the accusations about our invitations.

http://shelfari.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/11/invitation-desi.html

Just like competing sites, we do everything we can to avoid people sending unwanted emails. I’d love to have you checkout Shelfari and tell us what you think!

Happy Reading,

Josh