Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
LinkedIn ------------ Linux, I'd like to include you in my network to share updates and stay in touch. - Peter Peter Drake Teacher at Victoria University Melbourne Area, Australia Confirm that you know Peter Drake: https://www.linkedin.com/e/-yhvhf6-hfqhmow1-y/isd/12623853746/illMn13Y/?hs=f... -- You are receiving Invitation to Connect emails. Click to unsubscribe: http://www.linkedin.com/e/-yhvhf6-hfqhmow1-y/AsY5QCVyLGMDpk6UevYY8mLJhvdwey-... (c) 2012 LinkedIn Corporation. 2029 Stierlin Ct, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
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. James
-----Original Message----- From: luv-main-bounces@luv.asn.au [mailto:luv-main-bounces@luv.asn.au] On Behalf Of Peter Drake Sent: Saturday, 20 April 2013 5:51 PM To: Linux Victoria Subject: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
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From Peter Drake
Teacher at Victoria University Melbourne Area, Australia
Linux,
I'd like to include you in my network to share updates and stay in touch.
- Peter
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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". even aside from spam, you should never give out other people's phone numbers, street addresses, email addresses or other contact information - you don't know if the person you're giving the phone number/address is the nutcase stalker ex- that they've been avoiding for years...and you don't know if giving those details to linkedin or facebook or whatever (and that includes allowing them access to your email account) will help a stalker find someone who has successfully escaped. at the very most, you can offer to pass on the contact details of the person who's asking, "if i happen to run into them, but no promises". in short: you don't ever have the right to over-turn someone else's privacy. it's not your decision to make. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
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
On Sat, 20 Apr 2013, James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:
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".
Of course someone might know that their friends actually don't mind an offer to join linked-in but not realise that mailing list addresses might be regarded as "friends". -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
Quoting James Harper (james.harper@bendigoit.com.au):
But anyone with "common sense" knows that ain't gonna happen, so here we are.
I've just submitted requests via https://help.linkedin.com/app/ask/path/dnca to add luv-main@luv.asn.au and luv-talk@luv.asn.au to LinkedIn's Do Not Contact List. Yr. welcome. ;->
Quoting James Harper (james.harper@bendigoit.com.au):
But anyone with "common sense" knows that ain't gonna happen, so here we are.
I've just submitted requests via https://help.linkedin.com/app/ask/path/dnca to add luv-main@luv.asn.au and luv-talk@luv.asn.au to LinkedIn's Do Not Contact List.
Yr. welcome. ;->
You da man! I've done this before for lists I'm a member of, but only after requesting that the list maintainers do it and getting no response after a few days, on the basis that it's not my list and that maybe the list maintainers have other ideas of what is acceptable. OTOH sometimes it is easier to seek forgiveness than permission :) James
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