It was sent to the wlug mailing list.  My guess is somebody gave their address book to LinkedIn, the same thing happened with Facebook a few years back, IIRC (or was that on another mailing list?)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:33 PM, E Johnson <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:iris.gates@gmail.com">iris.gates@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Noooo!<br><br>Did anyone else from WLUG receive this? If so, let&#39;s fix it.<br><br>Please don&#39;t use the private WLUG mailing list contact info for invitations to social sites!<br><br>Al, please delete me from your Contacts immediately.<br>


<br>WLUG: maybe some kind of Privacy statement should be posted on the WLUG website (link on main page). I looked for some statement about how the mailing list contacts should be private, but found none. Private mailing lists are not for mining.<br>


<br>Wrong, bad, no, please, no. My contact is not to be shared, not at any time, for any reason.<br><br>Thanks, <br>Liz J<br><br>
If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, 
you are the product. -Jonathan Zittrain, professor of Internet law (b. 
1969)
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 March 2012 18:14, Al Butler <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:albutlerjr@yahoo.com" target="_blank">albutlerjr@yahoo.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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