Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[NoOp]

On 06/30/2011 03:47 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On 6/30/2011 5:33 PM, NoOp wrote:
>> Unfortunately, this is not the first time that A. Jorge Garcia has had
>> this problem... Previously it was twitter spams - see:
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/239119
> 
> *All* social networking sites do the same thing.  They dive into your
> email, grab a list and then spam people.  Since I've never invited my
> contacts to socialise with me on websites in mass (mostly because I
> don't trust such tools to scrap my email and contacts list for an
> internal database for more than what the tool is designed for) I have no
> true idea if they allow you to modify that spam list before they go out,
> but if they don't allow you to then that's not the users fault, that's
> the systems fault so you need to take it up with Linkedin and Twitter,
> not Calc.

No idea what Calc has to do with anything. Nor do I feel any need to
take anything up with Twitter or LinkedIn. People who subscribe to those
services need to take it up with them... I don't.

If those services mine email address' lists from the user accounts, then
that is their problem, not mine. And yes, it is the users fault. They
signed up for it, they allowed the "social networking site" into their
machine, and *they* are indeed responsible for the result. It is the
same as if I am stupid enough to allow my machine to be part of a
botnet/spamnet then I am responsible.

A. Jorge Garcia should have learned from his previous Twitter spam
experience to avoid the issue. It's not my responsibility to notify his
social networking sites that he's foolish enough to let them into his
machine, it's his.

> 
> No, I'm not defending spam, or making up an excuse for him, I'm just
> saying it's not fair he gets the heat for a failure of another.
> 
> I'm wondering if anybody has ever even attempted to contact these
> companies and ask them to start a absolute "do not email" list that
> users can report so that they don't accidentally spam mailing lists.

And why would *I* wish to do that? I didn't send the spam. Instead I'll
just block them and fools that sign up for such services.

> 
> I've forwarded this email to twitter support and linkedin support.
> 
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/244817
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/239119
> 
> Maybe Twitter and linked in and fix this for us and stop the emails to
> the list from accidentally going through by checking the list for
> certain emails.

Good luck with that. It's simply easier to filter/block such nonsense.