On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 08:01:03AM +0000, James Harper wrote:
If you email linked-in they will add the requested addresses (eg luv-main) to their block list to prevent such tragedies in the future.
alternatively, if people had any common sense or respect for other people, they'd realise that when some website asks "can i spam your contacts list?", the ONLY acceptable answer is "no, fuck off".
But anyone with "common sense" knows that ain't gonna happen, so here we are. And are you sure you know what common sense is? I hate that expression and only use it here to illustrate a point :p, but the implications of linked in's superficially generous and (probably) carefully worded offer to help you get your friends linked in too, while obvious to you and I, probably escapes the general population and can hardly be called "common sense". With a vanishingly small number of exceptions, all the linked in requests I get are via the (too many) mailing lists I'm subscribed too, and I think a lot of the list operators don't know that it's actually trivially easy to get your list blocked, which is why I mention it here. We can rant and rave about how the rest of the world should behave, but the only thing in our power that will stop linked in requests arriving on the list are either adding a filter to luv itself (which only works until their spam format changes) or requesting removal from linked in themselves. James