[Wylug-discuss] LinkedIn

[James Holden]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:05:40AM +0000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
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> Well yes, what people do on their own time is their problem...
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> However if someone, as someone has just done for the North West
> Perl Mongers list, signs up for LinkedIn, is stupid enough to hand
> access to their address book over to them (what do you mean its a
> good idea to give an account password to some random social
> networking site!), and then LinkedIn spam every address in their
> address book including these mailing lists; at that point I *will*
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>   1. Point, laugh and ridicule the person doing so
>   2. Unsubscribe them from the lists

Quite right too.

LinkedIn can't claim credit for being the first thing to enable people to spam
mailing lists with stupid stuff though ;-)

James

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> 	Nigel.
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> [ Nigel Metheringham ------------------------------ nigel at dotdot.it ]
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