(un) timely reflections

I can not help but leave the "enemy" takes me into his arms: Recently, the Plaxo CEO on the corporate blog has openly admitted that his company for the purpose of sending spam e-mails Kundenacquise previously had - at the same time he asked the user community to apologize.
A year ago, are still quite different from a member: When I had pointed out in my blog post on the Plaxo spam activities, reported promptly their "Privatlebenoffizier" (Privacy Officer), Stacy Martin via comment, and vehemently denied using any disreputable methods such as mass e-mails: "Plaxo does not send spam, maintain spam mailing lists, or support the activities of spammers."

Seems to be a mesh, as some commentators have argued that today it pulls up a shop just outside views of decency and legality. Even if it is half-running, you simply apologized for the sins of yesterday - that's it ....

I see myself now, incidentally strengthened in my old thesis that Plaxo with now over one billion audited addresses of its users or something different is up to. I'm curious about whether we will hear more excuses - in the sense of "Sorry, but the pool of addresses of our users was our only asset - we had to sell him." Or "Sorry, Plaxo is bankrupt and has the exploitation of our huge address database now in bankruptcy. "