[Tccc] INAPPROPRIATE POST - Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
Joe Touch
touch
Sat May 7 15:35:48 EDT 2011
Hi, all,
As a reminder - subscribers on this list are responsible for *ALL* their
posts to this list, regardless of how they are created.
Auto-reply, out-of-office, and mass-subscription invitations such as
below are not appropriate posts to this list. Subscribers responsible
for such posts risk being removed from the list.
This is a reminder to be careful what you click on, and how you
configure your systems.
Joe (TCCC Chair)
On 5/6/2011 4:35 PM, James P.G. Sterbenz wrote:
>
> On 6 May 2011, at 14:58, Joe Touch wrote:
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>> On 5/6/2011 11:40 AM, mandana hamidi via LinkedIn wrote:
>>> LinkedIn
>>> ------------mandana hamidi requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn:
>>> ------------------------------------------
>>
>> Hi, all,
>>
>> This is *never* an appropriate post to the TCCC list.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't think they even know this is happening. If people click on the buttons that LinkedIn, Facebook, and others suggest to invite people from their email contacts, this is what we get.
>
> I did attempt to try to track down this person and didn't find an email address, but did find a mobile phone number to text a message.
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> I've seen this on several other lists, and am afraid as social networking sites become more aggressive at pushing people to let them read their address books we'll see this more often. Why on earth anyone would want to invite everyone they've ever emailed onto Facebook or LinkedIn is another question...
>
> Cheers,
> James
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