Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[NoOp]

On 06/30/2011 03:08 PM, Patton Echols wrote:
...
> If you wre not aware, LinkedIn is like facebook for professionals.  
> Unfortunately, the website is not clear when it asks if you want to find 
> other colleagues.  It asks for your email address and password (Yes, I 
> know!) and gives the impression it is going to search it's database for 
> anyone in your address book.  While it may do that, it also spams 
> everyone in your name.
> 
> You should not tar and feather the users becase they were mislead by the 
> site designers.
> 
> Cheers
> 

Unfortunately, this is not the first time that A. Jorge Garcia has had
this problem... Previously it was twitter spams - see:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/239119