Invito a collegarsi su LinkedIn

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Liam Proven wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>> > Liam Proven wrote:
>> >> I don't think you know how this mailing list thing works.
>> >
>> > I don't think you know how linkedin works ...
>> >
>> >> --
>> >> Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven
>> >
>> > I see you are a member of linkedin - so maybe you should rather
>> > complain to them (instead of the clueless other linkedin user) that
>> > they are spamming mailing lists.
>>
>> I am indeed a member of LinkedIn, yes - which is how I know it has an
>> option to search your Gmail address book for contacts.
>
> And then they use the address book to spam those addresses with
> "invitations" ...

Only if you say yes to it about 3 times in a row. It's not automatic.

>> However, if
>>
>> this chap entered this into his contacts:
>> > Patrick Ancillotti <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>
>> Then he's doing it wrong, no?
>
> And why is linkedin _always_ using that fake name for the list address?

It is? I have never seen that before. Ah, well, perhaps then he didn't
put an invalid address in his contacts, but he still asked LinkedIn to
do something daft.


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