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Re: Join my network on LinkedIn
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 13:40:59 -0500
This isn't new. It's been LinkedIn's practice since approximately forever to get its users to surrender their address books and then to spam [1] every address in them. The fix is simple: block linkedin.com at the MTA. [2] ---rsk [1] It's unsolicited bulk email, therefore spam. We could argue about who's responsible for the spam, and a fair case can be made that those giving up their address books bear some culpability for it...but since it comes from LinkedIn's domain and LinkedIn's mail servers and LinkedIn's network and LinkedIn's software (which is expressly designed to do this very thing), I think it's fair to say that it's LinkedIn's spam. [2] If you don't want to do this on all mail servers, it should definitely be done on those hosting mailing lists, either at the MTA or in the mailing list software's configuration.
Current thread:
- Join my network on LinkedIn glauber gabriel via LinkedIn (Jan 02)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Join my network on LinkedIn Luis Palma Lopez via LinkedIn (Jan 02)
- Re: Join my network on LinkedIn JP Viljoen (Jan 02)
- Re: Join my network on LinkedIn Sean Lazar (Jan 02)
- Re: Join my network on LinkedIn Brielle Bruns (Jan 02)
- Re: Join my network on LinkedIn Chris Adams (Jan 02)
- Re: Join my network on LinkedIn Warren Bailey (Jan 02)
- Re: Join my network on LinkedIn Randy Bush (Jan 02)
- Re: Join my network on LinkedIn JP Viljoen (Jan 02)
- Re: Join my network on LinkedIn Rich Kulawiec (Jan 02)
- Re: Join my network on LinkedIn Nick Hilliard (Jan 02)
- Re: Join my network on LinkedIn William Herrin (Jan 02)
- Re: Join my network on LinkedIn Jimmy Hess (Jan 02)
- Re: Join my network on LinkedIn Jason Antman (Jan 08)
- Re: Join my network on LinkedIn Owen DeLong (Jan 08)
- Re: Join my network on LinkedIn Alex Brooks (Jan 08)
- Re: Join my network on LinkedIn Rich Kulawiec (Jan 08)
- Re: Join my network on LinkedIn Mark Foster (Jan 08)
- Re: Join my network on LinkedIn Constantine A. Murenin (Jan 08)