Comments on: Transparency Means Little Without Integrity http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/08/27/transparency-means-little-without-integrity/ This is the blog of Brooks Andrus. Here, at irregular intervals, you may find digital noise centered around the activities of an early 21st century technologist. I work for TechSmith Corporation, but this web space and the views found on it are entirely my own. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:34:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tm http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/08/27/transparency-means-little-without-integrity/comment-page-1/#comment-48439 Tm Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:17:35 +0000 http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/?p=277#comment-48439 Hey. LibraryThing guy here. Toolroomtrustee is apparently a LibraryThing user (see http://www.librarything.com/profile/toolroomtrustee). The user seems on the up-and-up to me, although not very engaged. Anyway, I don't see that a spammer would have books about Greek science and philosophy. What did the user invite you to, and how? Did you post your email on LibraryThing? It's quite possible the user saw something you posted, followed the profile and invited you to something, but without knowing your user name, that's about all I can say. If you don't want to be contacted by other other users, there's a checkbox for that. You can also send or not send comments to your email. Having an email is also optional, about the only site I've ever heard of that was that way... Hey. LibraryThing guy here. Toolroomtrustee is apparently a LibraryThing user (see http://www.librarything.com/profile/toolroomtrustee). The user seems on the up-and-up to me, although not very engaged. Anyway, I don’t see that a spammer would have books about Greek science and philosophy.

What did the user invite you to, and how? Did you post your email on LibraryThing? It’s quite possible the user saw something you posted, followed the profile and invited you to something, but without knowing your user name, that’s about all I can say.

If you don’t want to be contacted by other other users, there’s a checkbox for that. You can also send or not send comments to your email. Having an email is also optional, about the only site I’ve ever heard of that was that way…

]]> By: Brooks http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/08/27/transparency-means-little-without-integrity/comment-page-1/#comment-48437 Brooks Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:17:26 +0000 http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/?p=277#comment-48437 @Lindsey - I don't work for LibraryThing, so you're probably better served by taking that kind of question directly to them. LT is innocent until proven guilty in my book, so you'll forgive me if I given them the benefit of the doubt until some hard evidence of a spam campaign shows up. If it turns out they have some sort of dishonest spamming practice going on it would be disappointing to say the least. @Lindsey – I don’t work for LibraryThing, so you’re probably better served by taking that kind of question directly to them.

LT is innocent until proven guilty in my book, so you’ll forgive me if I given them the benefit of the doubt until some hard evidence of a spam campaign shows up.

If it turns out they have some sort of dishonest spamming practice going on it would be disappointing to say the least.

]]> By: Lindsey Thomas Martin http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/08/27/transparency-means-little-without-integrity/comment-page-1/#comment-48436 Lindsey Thomas Martin Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:45:04 +0000 http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/?p=277#comment-48436 So what am I to make of the 'invitation' from 'toolroomtrustee', a.k.a. hermes.librarything.com (72.12.88.172), that arrived in my junk mail 10 minutes after I visited librarything.com? LTM So what am I to make of the ‘invitation’ from ‘toolroomtrustee’, a.k.a. hermes.librarything.com (72.12.88.172), that arrived in my junk mail 10 minutes after I visited librarything.com?

LTM

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