Chris's Wiki :: blog/spam/LinkedInUnsubEvil Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/spam/LinkedInUnsubEvil?atomcommentsDWiki2014-08-06T21:05:19ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/spam/LinkedInUnsubEvil.By P on /blog/spam/LinkedInUnsubEviltag:CSpace:blog/spam/LinkedInUnsubEvil:c0be337d5eb81eb7adf8c46cefd24517889f24f1P<div class="wikitext"><p>One annoying part of this is that they are trying to collect e-mail addresses that were given to other people and link them back to you. So, if you have a work address W and private address P, and a friendly idiot F uploaded P to LinkedIn, then trying to unsubscribe will tell LinkedIn that W and P are for the same person. The only way to deal with these e-mails is to ignore them.</p>
</div>2014-08-06T21:05:19ZBy yggdrasil on /blog/spam/LinkedInUnsubEviltag:CSpace:blog/spam/LinkedInUnsubEvil:a5811db50ccf349a36ea6e92fd0d52c2b3cb24afyggdrasil<div class="wikitext"><p>Please someone explain to me how this is even legal? "You have no affiliation with us and never agreed to receiving emails from us, but if you want us to stop emailing you, you have to give us as much data about you as possible". Maybe I just don't know laws in North America, but this seems so obviously illegal I can't help but wonder.</p>
</div>2014-08-06T15:58:25ZBy Ewen McNeill on /blog/spam/LinkedInUnsubEviltag:CSpace:blog/spam/LinkedInUnsubEvil:32e04d72efd3339527665deffcb1ec0434e445fbEwen McNeill<div class="wikitext"><p>Also, FWIW, that sort of join-LinkedIn email solicitation (which gets sent multiple times, BTW -- off the top of my head 3 times over the course of a couple of weeks) appears to be triggered by people falling victim to LinkedIn's "upload your address book and see who you know" prompts (AFAICT from symptoms and general discussion, it emails every address it <em>can't</em> find on LinkedIn already). I know this because various people have just-for-them variations on my email address which I've then received LinkedIn email solicitations. (The most amusing was what I think was the receptionist for somewhere I did a night class once, a bunch of years back; the LinkedIn email came in a few months back.)</p>
<p>Facebook (and probably others) also seem to send solicitations like this, in some situations, but none so prolifically as LinkedIn.</p>
<p>I've never bothered to try unsubscribing to any of them; I have a personal rule only to unsubscribe to "legitimate" things (where, eg, I did previously use their service with that particular address and they've just randomly decided to ignore the "no thanks, I don't want the spam" choice; mostly those unsubscribes work). The rest I figure are better handled with spam filtering... Thanks for confirming that was a wise time saving on my part :-)</p>
<p>Ewen</p>
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