I’m sorry for being an @$$ho73. But you see, my problem is I have more than a thousand contacts in Google Mail and mostly are from mailing lists, and being the lazy “gramps” kind-of user that I am, I’d rather say “Oh, I have to really check the guys I really like to invite, what a bitch!” than, “Oh no! I’m receiving hate emails from mailing list geeks because I’m a spammer” or “I was dropped from my mailing list because I send SPAM.”

I think you get my point. Make the default values of each checkbox to “unchecked” (except those who already are in Shelfari) even if you tell me there were a bunch of words printed on that page, because frankly, not all users read lengthy stuff.

On a good note, you do really have an interesting system to connect book lovers like us. We can talk about these books instead of going to Yahoo! Groups which might even be a spinoff of another group, etc.

Don’t worry. I like your site. My only issue is the invites system.

That is disconcerting. Please know that we only send to the people whose names are checked and who you invite, and as it says next to the invite button, we may send them one reminder a few days later. After that we don’t send any further email (from you or from us).

That’s a pretty rough start to Shelfari. Don’t give up on us. The community of readers is really incredible.

Also, if you want to send me any email addresses or domains we should be blocking, we’d love them. We blocked all of the groups, blog posting, lists, and such we could think of, but there will always be millions more.

Thanks,

–Dave