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Re: Unsolicited LinkedIn requests


From: mark seiden <mis () seiden com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:37:24 -0800


On 12/11/18 1:53 PM, Mark Foster wrote:
Amazingly I had a sales-type engage with me via InMail just recently,
defending his cold sales approach (spam, basically) when I tried to do the
polite thing and explain why what he was doing was 'bad'.

Mark.

when on the third un-replied to email asking for a meeting i told one of these sales droids that i had no interest in receiving spam and didn't he get the hint when i didn't reply twice he said "i'm just trying to help".

(i said, at least be honest about it.  you're trying to sell me your stuff and mostly help yourself. and complained to linked in about it -- they have a report-spam-or-scam link.  i have no idea what they do with it.)



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