I just got a notification that "debian-user" just joined plaxo. (Since debian-
user is in my address book, we can now connect, share photos, etc .....:-)
)
Plaxo is an addressbook service that works well with ms-outlook, worse with
outlook-express, NO interface to Linux.

I have been bugging them for years to provide a standard LDAP interface
instead of or in addition to their proprietary windows stuff. To no avail.

If "debian-user" has indeed joined plaxo, maybe we can all push for LDAP!


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David Baron wrote:

I just got a notification that "debian-user" just joined plaxo. (Since debian-
user is in my address book, we can now connect, share photos, etc .....:-)
)
Plaxo is an addressbook service that works well with ms-outlook, worse with
outlook-express, NO interface to Linux.

wouldn't it be better to sign up with another option that does support
normal standards instead of the one that never actually cared about you?
although i admittedly have no idea what plaxo really does.
I have been bugging them for years to provide a standard LDAP interface
instead of or in addition to their proprietary windows stuff. To no avail.


If "debian-user" has indeed joined plaxo, maybe we can all push for LDAP!



personally i recent those kind of e-mails that invite you to yet another
"see all your friends locked up behind a compulsory registration so we
can sell all your data" site. So i see little sense in start shopping at
the butcher shop hoping they would start selling vegetarian products
after me being a regular customer.







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David Baron wrote:

I just got a notification that "debian-user" just joined plaxo. (Since debian-
user is in my address book, we can now connect, share photos, etc .....:-)
)


Why would we want to do such a thing?


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On Sunday 15 March 2009 02:03:21 debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org
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> > I just got a notification that "debian-user" just joined plaxo. (Since
> > debian- user is in my address book, we can now connect, share photos, etc
> > .....:-) )
>
> Why would we want to do such a thing?

Why I posted in the first place.

History: I joined plaxo before I knew what linux or ldap were. Ran their
toolbar in outlook-express but found it hung up my network access on bootup so
had to take it off. Now I only use plaxo as an offline backup of my
addressbook. It reads/writes netscape's format.

After going over to Linux, I started bugging them about ldap, to no avail.

Plaxo has freebee and paid versions. I will not pay for such things.

Another nice service that started out free and now charges a reasonable rate
for a lot of offline backup space is livedrive. They have a windows interface
that looks like another disk drive, hence their name. I have been bugging them
to give simple (secured) ftp access. There is already a plasmoid around to use
that (or I would roll my own--use rsync to sync directories maybe. Their
website javascript was problematic when I tried it.


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