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Are you spamming your friends?
So, how did this happen? Reunion.com is a legitimate service. It doesn't have rooms full of hackers mining people's e-mail accounts. Unfortunately, the finger of blame is pointing at your husband. The site didn't hack your e-mail account. Your husband gave it permission to access your contact list. To be fair, this is easy to do accidentally. He probably didn't know it happened. Social-networking sites and related services rely on friends' lists. To get anything out of it, your friends need to use it. Any social service without friends is pretty much useless. Be careful on social-networking sites. Click here for more info.  Every day, Team Komando produces some of the best content you'll find anywhere on the Internet. Here is a sampling of what's new on our site today! • Video of the Day: Sometimes tragedies turn out to be blessings. The Mooneys found this out first hand. Their story is a real tearjerker. • Cool Site of the Day: You can easily shoot night pictures. It's best to use the blue hour. Not up to speed on that? Learn about it at this site. • Digital Minute, on your radio: So, you want to lose a little weight in 2009. You're not alone. Fortunately, you'll find plenty of help online! • Free Download of the Day: You probably have your bookmarks organized in folders. There is a better way to do it. Visually. • Tip on the site: Black dots in your pictures are a pain. They probably mean you have dirt on your lens or sensor. That dirt is easily removed. See you on Monday Kim :) 
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My husband recently joined Reunion.com. He wanted to get in touch with some of his old classmates. Well, the site somehow scanned our e-mail contact list. The site is now sending invitations to all of our contacts. That's our family, friends and business contacts. These invitations say they are from my husband. How can the site do this without our permission? Is this legal? It feels like we are being used to send spam.
This is a potentially embarrassing situation. Essentially, Reunion.com sent spam to everyone in the Contact list. This is especially annoying because it includes your business contacts. An explanation/apology e-mail is probably required.
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