Comments on: Yet-to-launch Blummi blows it with mass e-mail snafu

Mass e-mails from start-ups can be annoying, but what about when that list is made public?

[binaryknight]

I was on that email list as well but i didn't feel the need to point out someone's mistake (for which they apologised) and then obnoxiously tell them how to do it right.

You said: Now I've got several hundred strangers able to send me, and everyone else on the list an e-mail with just a click of a button--a few already have

If i was concerned about the "Several Hundred" (bit high btw) strangers getting a hold of my email address, I might want to take my email address off my personal blog in which I welcome contact :S

Must have been a slow news day for Webware and now I am concerned about what cnet will do to my email address now I signed up to make this comment.....

[Josh.Lowensohn]

We never do anything with your e-mail address unless you've signed up for membership for one of our newsletters--in which case you'd get said weekly newsletters until you did not want to.

[chrisbrennan]

its called privacy. that is an issue webware should be writing and teaching its readers.

[hoverrick]

I agree with you, completely binaryknight. There is no need to point out someone's mistake for with they apologised. Errors can happen and nobody can avoid them. But it seems also that you "Josh" haven't understand what Blummi exactly does, because I think that Brightkite is neither a social network nor does it offer a native mobile client for their services. The only thing that seems to be equal is the fact, that both services provide location-based services.

Curious to know how Blummi will work ...