What is this?

[Gary Woods]

VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

>I'd suspect and expect because it is considered a professional community
>that someone spamming, scamming, or phishing would get kicked off along
>with peuriles, malcontents, trolls, imposters, and other undesirables
>that afflict Usenet,

You'd be wrong; linkedin attempts to send mail to everyone in your
addressbook and never stops. I'm not a member (and don't intend to be),
but I finally forwarded anything from them do Dave Null. What he does with
it, I don't know.


--
Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

[Timmy]

Dustin wrote...

>
> VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote in news:jjdmih$4rq$1@news.albasani.net:
>
> > Timmy wrote:
> >
> >> You needn't worry, no one gives a FF about you.
> >
> > Oh my god, I've been rebuked by a puerile unable to qualify for
> > membership in any moderated professional group so he is left to drool
> > his poison here in Usenet. Oh dear me, how shall I survive this ever so
> > devastating lambaste to my presumed thin-skinned ego.
>
> Which professional groups do you proclaim to be a member of? As for thin
> skinned ego, I've never accused you of that. Quite the opposite. Arrogant,
> thick skinned.
>
> > http://movieclips.com/icda-the-wizar...ie-im-melting/
>
> Sad you feel the need to provide a url for one of the most well known ehh,
> moving pictures quotes. For someone to be unfamiliar with that paragraph,
> they don't read/write yet OR they've been living under a rock.
>
> You have extreme illusions of grander, You should get that checked.



He's full of **** and sadly we have to keep on reading it.

[VanguardLH]

Gary Woods wrote:

> VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:
>
>>I'd suspect and expect because it is considered a professional community
>>that someone spamming, scamming, or phishing would get kicked off along
>>with peuriles, malcontents, trolls, imposters, and other undesirables
>>that afflict Usenet,
>
> You'd be wrong; linkedin attempts to send mail to everyone in your
> addressbook and never stops. I'm not a member (and don't intend to be),
> but I finally forwarded anything from them do Dave Null. What he does with
> it, I don't know.

Lurkers aren't going to get reported, are they? Or are you saying that
LinkedIn themselves are distributing spam to those you've added to your
address book there? Their [non-]privacy policy certainly appears to say
they will distribute your contact info to third parties:

http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=privacy_policy says "We use the
information you provide to: ... your personal details to third parties
offering combined services with LinkedIn" and "Send you service or
promotional communications through email" (although they claim you can
configure these in your preferences options). Yet they declare "We do
not sell, rent, or otherwise provide personally identifiable information
to third parties without your consent".

According to G. Morgan's reply, you decide who becomes part of your
personal network (and those folks apparently get your contacts). They
say "We also provide you with the means to control whether or not your
contact information is viewable to other Users through your profile."

Seems like a good test is to sign up with a special-use account only for
use with LinkedIn and then monitor for where any e-mails originate.

[Retired]

G. Morgan <sealteam6@osama-is-dead.net> wrote in
news:0akkl715jss8u1nqk3i79miv84f6e23jgh@Osama-is-dead.net:

> Retired wrote:
>
>>What is LinkedIn?
>
> Now that you know what it is, if you decide to participate be VERY
> careful to who you allow joining 'your' network. Since it is filled
> with professionals, you don't want to invite someone you don't know
> to see your contacts. Nothing will ruin your reputation faster than
> allowing some jerk to get your hard-earned contact's information and
> re posting them.
>
> Mine has CEO's and other high ranking executives at certain
> companies. If I willy-nilly 'accept' someone I don't know, they can
> access my contacts. You could see where that may be disastrous.

I have no intention of getting involved in it. What threw me was the spammy
nature of the email from someone I've never heard of. I have all kinds of
alias email addresses but I don't give my main email address to anybody.
This one came to my main address. If I get spammed at any of the others, I
just delete the alias.

I did Google for LinkedIn but I got a better idea what it really is through
the replies I got here. Thanks to all of you! Not counting the troll(s), of
course... :-)

--
-- I'm retired. I was tired yesterday. I'm tired again today --

[Han]

Retired <senile@nursinghome.nat> wrote in
news:XnsA011DFC359E1Abutter@wefb973cbe498:

> G. Morgan <sealteam6@osama-is-dead.net> wrote in
> news:0akkl715jss8u1nqk3i79miv84f6e23jgh@Osama-is-dead.net:
>
>> Retired wrote:
>>
>>>What is LinkedIn?
>>
>> Now that you know what it is, if you decide to participate be VERY
>> careful to who you allow joining 'your' network. Since it is filled
>> with professionals, you don't want to invite someone you don't know
>> to see your contacts. Nothing will ruin your reputation faster than
>> allowing some jerk to get your hard-earned contact's information and
>> re posting them.
>>
>> Mine has CEO's and other high ranking executives at certain
>> companies. If I willy-nilly 'accept' someone I don't know, they can
>> access my contacts. You could see where that may be disastrous.
>
> I have no intention of getting involved in it. What threw me was the
> spammy nature of the email from someone I've never heard of. I have
> all kinds of alias email addresses but I don't give my main email
> address to anybody. This one came to my main address. If I get spammed
> at any of the others, I just delete the alias.
>
> I did Google for LinkedIn but I got a better idea what it really is
> through the replies I got here. Thanks to all of you! Not counting the
> troll(s), of course... :-)

Like all social networks, you have to manage it. Don't let it scan your
addressbook, unless you have a separate one for real, professional
contacts. And don't accept just anyone who asks to connect. It's as
simple as that. A good aspect is that people you do want to keep up with
professionally (and who update their info carefully) are "available".
Such as people who might ask you for a reference, who move to another
place of employment, fill it in.

--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid

[Gary Woods]

Han <nobody@nospam.not> wrote:

>Like all social networks, you have to manage it. Don't let it scan your
>addressbook, unless you have a separate one for real, professional
>contacts.
The problem with linkedin is that it will continue to send you requests
even after you have clicked the "don't email me" link. In my world, that's
not a social network; it's a spammer.


--
Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G