[CAUT] Invitiation to connect on LinkedIn

[Jim Moy]

I've added a Mailman filter on header "X-LinkedIn-Class: INVITE-GUEST" so
hopefully future invites are simply discarded.

Unfortunately, since they send email on behalf of the subscriber, possibly
without them even knowing it, people who are also subscribers to our email
list come through as if they were simply sending a message on the list and
are not flagged as spam.

Jim

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Adkins, Richard <radkins at coe.edu> wrote:

>
> Actually, no one invited us. The LinkedIn "app" goes into your
> email address folder and copies/downloads it, and then uses it
> to invite your friends to join. So, someone signed up that's on
> this list and the PTG lists as well, and this is the result. It is
> supposed to be some professional social app for people in
> any profession to join. I guess you can read more about this
> online. There was a big article on this on Yahoo news I believe
> Friday.
>
>
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/google-and-mobile-apps-take-data-books-without-permission/
>
> So this is what's happening, and is going to happen...!
>
> When you sign up for LinkedIn, if you read the fine print you
> give them persmission to gather all kinds of info on you, like
> your IP address,etc...AND your email contacts!
>
> I would ignore this and all these other social apps until they get
> their acts together.
>
> I see no benefit in joingin LinkedIn, but some of you may, or may
> have already done so. Thanks for the spam.
> Cheers,
> Rich A.
>
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:57:29 -0600
>> From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net>
>> To: caut at ptg.org
>> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
>> Message-ID: <4F4010B9.6030604 at cox.net>
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>> On 2/17/2012 9:11 PM, John Ross wrote:
>> > Hi Nevin,
>> > I find Linkedin to buggy for me, thank you for the offer.
>> > Best regards,
>> > John Ross
>>
>>
>> I've received a number of these invitations personally. Ignored, they
>> tend to repeat. When I respond to the individual named asking why I
>> would find it desirable to join, I get no response. So since the entire
>> caut list has been invited to join, can anyone explain what this is for?
>> The web site isn't awfully informative, but that's not unexpected. What
>> are the supposed benefits of joining, and is there a bounty of some sort
>> for a subscriber that signs up more people?
>> Ron N
>>
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