Reply to post: Re: Pot? Kettle?

LinkedIn sues 100 information scrapers after technical safeguard fail

RW

Re: Pot? Kettle?

> How about going after those who incessantly send unsolicited invites

> and reminders to people who have no interest in joining their social

> media site but happen to be in the email address book of someone

> who accidentally clicked the "spam everyone I know" button?

I kept getting linkedln join requests from an idiot who, apparently, subscribed to a mailing list I subscribe to, kept all the emails sent out by the list, and let linkedln harvest them all. Once that's done, it's linkedln itself that spams them.

I finally resorted to writing him each time and complaining in a vociferous, not particularly polite manner and it stopped. There may have been threats of complaints to the guy's ISP.

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