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This is one of the scariest buttons I've ever seen: When would I ever want to email everybody in my Gmail contacts list? everybody??

ishener 12y ago
Is it really so different from sharing something on facebook? From my experience regular users sometimes prefer sharing with everyone instead of taking the time to select specific contacts. They don't really care, it's just email...
- CanSpice 12y ago
  I've opted-in to be friends with someone on Facebook. I've opted-in to follow someone on Twitter. I have not opted-in to be in someone's contact list on Gmail. That's the big difference.
  - ishener 12y ago
    But you gave the person your email address. He wants to send you an email. I just help him fulfill his wish...
    - CanSpice 12y ago
      No I didn't. There's nothing stopping someone from finding my email address and sticking it in their contact list. How do you think spammers get email addresses in the first place? People give them their email addresses?
      - Brad2earth 12y ago
        I concur 100% with CanSpice. I saw the email from a contact, clicked through and saw that your app only asks for "view contacts" so I though I'd be able to choose to whom I'd send an email or at least have some kind of confirmation before all of a sudden "BAM" you send thousands of emails to everyone I've emailed in the past 5 years. That's really bad. You have to improve the UX/UI so that there's a bit of granularity and more transparency otherwise, you're going to lose your Google API access... or simply disappear as everyone marks your emails as spam.
        ishener 12y ago
        I hear what you are saying. I'll think about adding another confirmation screen after the authorization.
        Brad2earth 12y ago
        I think this is a minimum. Optimally you'd have a UI which allows you to choose with whom to share... otherwise it's simply not pertinent for so many people and thus simply spam.

ishener 12y ago

Is it really so different from sharing something on facebook? From my experience regular users sometimes prefer sharing with everyone instead of taking the time to select specific contacts. They don't really care, it's just email...

CanSpice 12y ago
I've opted-in to be friends with someone on Facebook. I've opted-in to follow someone on Twitter. I have not opted-in to be in someone's contact list on Gmail. That's the big difference.
- ishener 12y ago
  But you gave the person your email address. He wants to send you an email. I just help him fulfill his wish...
  - CanSpice 12y ago
    No I didn't. There's nothing stopping someone from finding my email address and sticking it in their contact list. How do you think spammers get email addresses in the first place? People give them their email addresses?
    - Brad2earth 12y ago
      I concur 100% with CanSpice. I saw the email from a contact, clicked through and saw that your app only asks for "view contacts" so I though I'd be able to choose to whom I'd send an email or at least have some kind of confirmation before all of a sudden "BAM" you send thousands of emails to everyone I've emailed in the past 5 years. That's really bad. You have to improve the UX/UI so that there's a bit of granularity and more transparency otherwise, you're going to lose your Google API access... or simply disappear as everyone marks your emails as spam.
      - ishener 12y ago
        I hear what you are saying. I'll think about adding another confirmation screen after the authorization.
        Brad2earth 12y ago
        I think this is a minimum. Optimally you'd have a UI which allows you to choose with whom to share... otherwise it's simply not pertinent for so many people and thus simply spam.