Just to clarify, since Dina Mehta recently quoted something I wrote in 2003...

[from Conversations with Dina

On the other hand, Stowe Boyd wrote a piece way back in 2003 on Plaxo called Content Unmanagement. And he doesn't seem to feel it is spamming.

Since I moved to Mac in Jan, I have had no personal benefit from PLaxo, and so it has just seemed like a bunch of emails to delete: spam.

I put them in the hall of shame (Windows only), and I am now going to delete my account. I no longer want to optimize contact management through a networked contact "un"management system. What I dream of now is something else entirely, with no central server/service. I have hopes for microformats, but ultimately it will be an individual publishing his/her identity -- unmediated. No Plaxo in the picture, per se. And no spammish emails, either.

But deleting was easy and fast.