[Wylug-discuss] LinkedIn

[James Holden]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 05:09:19PM +0000, Dave Fisher wrote:
> On 17 February 2011 17:02, Nigel Metheringham <nigel at dotdot.it> wrote:
> > Personally I am uninterested.
> > Actually its stronger than that - I really hate LinkedIn, but thats mainly
> > because  it seems to combine the worst features of Facebook and AOL
> > (yay - lets invite all the mailing lists I belong to be LinkedIn contacts)
> > along with sets of predatory (and probably useless) recruiters.
> > And I wish they wouldn't keep resending messages - one person (who has
> > gone down remarkably in my estimation) sent LinkedIn invites to 4 separate
> > of my email addresses, and I have so far received 2 lots of reminders to
> > each of those email addresses.  Unfortunately I don't run my own MTAs
> > any more so just blacklisting the whole domain is no longer an option.

I dislike it too, but unfortunately, lots of people use it.

(Especially recruiters, don't get me started on that).

> Thanks for that Nigel ... I now recognise part of what we are talking
> about ... and I don't want any part of it.
> 
> I'm sick and tired of LinkedIn spam and the reminders which insist I
> respond to stuff I've never expressed the slightest interest in.

I don't think Robert was suggesting compulsory participation :-)

James

> 
> ... Get us all out of here! :-D
> 
> Dave
> 
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