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alxwz:
This thread is quite dated, but I wanted to add that I came across a German blog that has always been very critical of Plaxo and some months ago published a post about how Cardscan - without transparency for the users of the program - sends out phoney emails to people in your address book and uses spammers' methods like web bugs and the like. Just like Plaxo.

For anyone who can make use of German, the post is here: http://miedl.net/2006/11/24/plaxo-cardscan-und-co-die-virale-totalberwachung-findet-nachahmer-und-verbreiter/

The owner of the blog, Wolfgang Miedl, has always suspected Plaxo to use these methods to collect email addresses with the intention to sell them at some time in the future.
I had no possibility to check the validity of these warnings, but wanted to inform the fellow members nonetheless.

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