The accusation is that Quechua is using an “underhanded” approach to request new members through mining the email accounts of subscribers, resulting in an email frenzy that is causing embarrassment and fear. That was enough to scare me out of the Quechup system, at least until things settle down and the ripples stop flowing everywhere.

I only joined yesterday at the request of friend. [Did he know he was asking me???] I noticed when i signed up that they wanted my email details and password which was a little unsettling but normal for some systems. I pretty much join all the social networking sites when i get an invite. I like to road test them and people ask me for my opinion so I need to be in the know. But this one freaked me out so I cancelled my subscription. Luckily, no invitations have issued from my account except for a friend request to the guy who invited me. WHEEEOOOWWWW!!!!

My advise is to JUMP SHIP if you are a member, until Quechua get their act together - assuming they turn this thing around. Two things you can do:
First is to make yourself “unsearchable” in your account profile.
Second is to go to “Account” and cancel your subscription.
I did both.

The warning is one of many in the blogging world, from Tall Skinny Kiwi. The next day he posted:

Quechup, which I warned about yesterday spammed people on my email list and one went to this typepad address, turning into a blog post. Please delete or ignore the friend request if you get an email from me this morning. This is SPAM! and its ugly. Sorry everyone. I thought I was safe because I deleted my account yesterday but I should have changed my email details as well.