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the new AIM has included Plaxo (online contacts, ect). I have used it a few times now, and I like it, especially how it got all my address books from various places and sync-d them together. My wife, however, thinks it's a scam, and they are using it to get other people's info to spam them..... I read through the TOS, and really didn't see anything that would allow them to do that, but I thought I would see about getting other opinions....

it COULD be safe, but .... are we now too lazy to remember an e-mail addess? lolplus i don't trust e-fine print. anyone can write them and post it along with some software... then BAM! someone broke into your e-mail account.

Quote, originally posted by mcgusto82 » are we now too lazy to remember an e-mail addess? kind of hard to remember hundreds of email addresses when dealing with business contacts. my boss uses plaxo and seems to like it. i tried it for awhile but gave it up as my pda syncs all that stuff between my work and home (and lets me carry it with me ).i'm not sure about the whole 'spyware' thing...then again, my boss gets about 5 - 10x more spam than i do...

I tried that with a PDA, (an older Handspring), but the blankaty thing eats batteries! and my MacMini won't recognize it. This way all the pc's I deal with plus my phone are now sync'd.

Quote, originally posted by Atomb »kind of hard to remember hundreds of email addresses when dealing with business contacts. my boss uses plaxo and seems to like it. i tried it for awhile but gave it up as my pda syncs all that stuff between my work and home (and lets me carry it with me ).i'm not sure about the whole 'spyware' thing...then again, my boss gets about 5 - 10x more spam than i do...I had a boss that liked Gator because it remembered all his password for him. But then he'd complain about pop-ups. So I'd remove gator... and then he'd complain about forgetting passwords... I'd be warry of giving a thirdparty all your friends VALID email addresses. I sure would be ticked if someone handed out my email address because they didn't want to use their own mail client.Gmail, Yahoo mail, hotmail, etc - all have online contact lists. Plaxo is looking like a scam.