Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

Jordon Bedwell jordon at envygeeks.com
Thu Jun 30 22:47:55 UTC 2011


On 6/30/2011 5:33 PM, NoOp wrote:
> 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

*All* social networking sites do the same thing.  They dive into your
email, grab a list and then spam people.  Since I've never invited my
contacts to socialise with me on websites in mass (mostly because I
don't trust such tools to scrap my email and contacts list for an
internal database for more than what the tool is designed for) I have no
true idea if they allow you to modify that spam list before they go out,
but if they don't allow you to then that's not the users fault, that's
the systems fault so you need to take it up with Linkedin and Twitter,
not Calc.

No, I'm not defending spam, or making up an excuse for him, I'm just
saying it's not fair he gets the heat for a failure of another.

I'm wondering if anybody has ever even attempted to contact these
companies and ask them to start a absolute "do not email" list that
users can report so that they don't accidentally spam mailing lists.

I've forwarded this email to twitter support and linkedin support.

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/244817
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/239119

Maybe Twitter and linked in and fix this for us and stop the emails to
the list from accidentally going through by checking the list for
certain emails.




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