SpiderOak referral bonus exchange

[tempusfugit]

So openSUSE 11.3 comes with the SpiderOak client ready to install from the repos.

If you haven't seen it, SO is an online backup and sync service, the big advantage compared to competing services like Dropbox is the zero-knowledge approach: everything is encrypted right on your machine, all they can know is how much data you are saving.

You get 2 GB for free, but they have a referral program where both parties get 1 GB extra. Here's my referrer link, if you use it to sign up you start with 3GB and I get 1 GB extra too, win-win.

https://spideroak.com/download/refer...570159f209bf49

Bonus space for free accounts is limited to 3 GB (for a total of 5), if others want to post their referral links too, I'll remove mine once I hit the 3 gig bonus, so everyone can benefit.

[tempusfugit]

I forgot one important point:
For the referral to work you need to click the link of course, this sets a special cookie. When registering your account provide a valid email. You need to open the verification email using your email providers web interface with the same browser and click the verification link with said cookie still alive.

[chief_sealth]

I forgot one important point:
For the referral to work you need to click the link

Not getting any hits, huh? Your first post looks like advertising, and I think people here are a little wiser than to follow spam links. I'm surprised the moderators haven't removed it.

[tempusfugit]

Not getting any hits, huh? Your first post looks like advertising, and I think people here are a little wiser than to follow spam links. I'm surprised the moderators haven't removed it.

If you would take just one short second to actually look at that link you would see that it really leads to the official spideroak webpage. But, yes, it's kind of an advertisement, with everyone gaining something I see only benefits though.

For people wanting to create their own referral links, go here:
https://spideroak.com/referral/

[hendersj]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:06:01 +0000, chief sealth wrote:

> I'm
> surprised the moderators haven't removed it.

Not quite as concerned about a referral message like this (not really a
'spam' profile, but I checked it out). We did have a short discussion
about it, and I think if it had shown up in more places than just here,
it would've set off my spidey-sense, but also tempusfugit has posted
several messages that provided actual help or asked real questions, which
also doesn't really fit the typical 'spammer' profile.

Since this is the general-chit-chat forum, it got left without comment,
but that doesn't mean it's open season for spammers to post here, either
- just that we have some criteria and things we look for, and this post/
thread didn't rise to that criteria level.

(Of course, saying what that criteria is would tell the spammers how to
evade it, so I'm not going to do that either <g>).

Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C

[EarthMind]

Why don't you simply use Wuala? You can get as much space as you want completely free and it's cross-platform, unlike spideroak, which you can't use in another OS with the same account.

Of course, there are also paying subscriptions available for those who can't participate in (space) trading.

[tempusfugit]

Why don't you simply use Wuala? You can get as much space as you want completely free and it's cross-platform, unlike spideroak, which you can't use in another OS with the same account.

I hadn't heard about Wuala before, interesting concept, but as far as I can see you need to have a pretty high uptime or share a lot of your own harddrive space to get to regions where it becomes viable.
Regarding cross-platform usage: spideroak is available for Linux, Mac, Win, has an iphone client and is of course usable with the same account on all platforms, that's about as cross-platform as I care about. (Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with them in any way, really.)

I'm sorry if I have so much as barely tickled the spam sensors, I really thought we could get an exchange going here, but obviously there is not that much interest anyway. One person has used the referral so far, thank you kind stranger and have fun with your extra space.

[gropiuskalle]

What's the problem? I also agree it's a win-win situation.

Here's my Refer-a-Friend-link: https://spideroak.com/download/refer...987ac96875f87c

[Jonathan_R]

If you all have noticed, none of us mods have stepped in and moderated this thread by deleting the post or the link. We don't consider this spam. Why? It is a featured app in 11.3 and I, for one, see nothing wrong with users trying to promote the app and gain extra storage. As has been mentioned, it's a win-win situation.

[chief_sealth]

All right, my judgement might have been rash, and I'm sorry about that. But promoting a private service and seeking referals just seemed a little bit out of the scope of the forums.