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Hi Kratpalm,

The Contacts Control does not prevent the end user from sending spam or exporting their entire address book to another system, but then it also does not make these actions a simple one click operation. The end user can do it, with a small amount of effort. Bulk operations are not the primary focus of the contacts control.

The scenario that we're most concerned about is a malicious or deceptive web site using the contacts control to trick a naieve end user into spamming everyone they know. Plaxo, for example, was burned by this a few months ago. A third party web site using Plaxo behind the scenes did not make it clear what would happen when people transfered contacts from external sources into the third party site (via Plaxo), and so when Plaxo's default policy of sending a welcome email to each transferred contact kicked in, people screamed foul. The truly sad part is that people blamed Plaxo for this rather than the web site that was orchestrating the operation.

-Danny

DannyThorpeMSFT at 2007-9-4 >