I believe these are the effect of linkedin harvesting your email contacts, and then a blanket "invite all" link that you can click. Whether it's linkedin who's spamming, or the person who forgot to uncheck certain mailing lists, that's more of a moral debate.. kris On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:21 PM, damodar kulkarni wrote:

Hi, 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? As an aside, can we not automatically delete all messages to haskell mailing-lists whose "from" field contains "LinkedIn" (and the likes of it) in it?

-Damodar

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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.

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