Re: [Haskell-cafe] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

My heart skipped a beat when I saw myself on here. Then I saw I was the target. For the record I am morally opposed to inbox harvesting, although LinkedIn keeps "recommending" that I do just that. Steve On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:21 PM, damodar kulkarni wrote:

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Correct me if I am wrong, but by looking at the way the message is created, I think, LinkedIn is acting a kind of spammer these days. Shall we lodge protest against it as a community?

What happens is that anyone who joins is pushed to run their contact list through them "to look for connections", then LinkedIn sends an invitation to any address not already noted as a member. So it's spammy but in an especially slimy user-initiated way.

-- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms

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