PM Thanks. Please try to remember not to allow these commercial websites access to your Contacts List unless you are sure they aren't gong to use your entire contacts list. Apparently one of your Contants was WLUG (did you "select" or "allow" that?), which then spammed EVERY WLUG mailing list member. Maybe t's not totally a Linkedin issue. Mybe you gave too-broad permissions to this entity. The result was Spam to every WLUG member, via the WLUG mailing list. Thanks for coming back to this. But please watch out in the future. Mailing lists should not be "members" of our general contacts lists. Make these list-addresses in a separate group & don't allow to be shared. Thanks, Liz J On 2 April 2012 19:17, Aljerin Butler,Jr. <albutlerjr@yahoo.com> wrote: Hello all,
This is a LinkedIn issue. I selected several people to connect to and LinkedIn "sneaked in" the rest of my address book contacts. On the original invitation presented by LinkedIn, I assumed that the half dozen or so contacts I saw were all there was. I didn't notice if there were any additional pages from which to select contacts ("Next" button).
Al Butler
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1. Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn (Jason Couture) 2. Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn (E Johnson) 3. Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn (Eric Martin) 4. Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn (E Johnson) 5. Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn (Eric Martin) Just need to be careful letting sites and apps go through your email contacts. On Mar 23, 2012 6:59 PM, "Eric Martin" <eric.joshua.martin@gmail.com> wrote:
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?)
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:33 PM, E Johnson <iris.gates@gmail.com> wrote:
Noooo!
Did anyone else from WLUG receive this? If so, let's fix it.
Please don't use the private WLUG mailing list contact info for invitations to social sites!
Al, please delete me from your Contacts immediately.
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.
Wrong, bad, no, please, no. My contact is not to be shared, not at any time, for any reason.
Thanks, Liz J
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On 23 March 2012 18:14, Al Butler <albutlerjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
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My guess is somebody gave their address book to LinkedIn
Obviously so.
Jason also commented:
Just need to be careful letting sites and apps go through your email contacts
Not just "be careful" but more like: "Do Not allow" sites and apps any access to your email contacts at all.
Ppls contact info is not owned by whoever has the person in their Contacts list.
Maybe a link could be added to the WLUG mailing list signup page, sending a proposed (requesting-to-join) WLUG mailing list member to a page stating Privacy policy (non-share contacts info). If a proposed (requesting) mailing list member must read Privacy policy, then agree (click Yes to Agree) before becoming a member of the mailing list, maybe it would prevent the idea that Contact lists can be so casually given away.
Liz J To clarify Liz, Linked In doesn't have your email address. They have wlug@wlug.org, and that contact opened X hundred emails.
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:21 PM, E Johnson <iris.gates@gmail.com> wrote:
My guess is somebody gave their address book to LinkedIn
Obviously so.
Jason also commented:
Just need to be careful letting sites and apps go through your email contacts
Not just "be careful" but more like: "Do Not allow" sites and apps any access to your email contacts at all.
Ppls contact info is not owned by whoever has the person in their Contacts list.
Maybe a link could be added to the WLUG mailing list signup page, sending a proposed (requesting-to-join) WLUG mailing list member to a page stating Privacy policy (non-share contacts info). If a proposed (requesting) mailing list member must read Privacy policy, then agree (click Yes to Agree) before becoming a member of the mailing list, maybe it would prevent the idea that Contact lists can be so casually given away.
Liz J
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-- Eric Martin I should have made that more clear.
Mail-list address or not, Iit still is not okay to give the WLUG email address to any other entities whatsoever. Someone shared the WLUG a mailing address with a certain social/commercial website. Then secondhandedly WLUG mailing list contacted x number of individual contacts on behalf of the social/commercial website The message included a direct link to this commercial website. List members were invited to click on this link, or else to click on the UNsubscribe link.
Even sharing the WLUG contact address with outside entities is Non-OK. We all got Spammed because someone decided it was okay to give our email to ___.com..
Liz J
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On 23 March 2012 21:09, Eric Martin <eric.joshua.martin@gmail.com> wrote:
To clarify Liz, Linked In doesn't have your email address. They have wlug@wlug.org, and that contact opened X hundred emails.
I agree it's not ok to share your address book, but accidents happen. That, and I was more getting at the fact that X service doesn't have our individual email addresses.
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:34 PM, E Johnson <iris.gates@gmail.com> wrote:
I should have made that more clear.
Mail-list address or not, Iit still is not okay to give the WLUG email address to any other entities whatsoever. Someone shared the WLUG a mailing address with a certain social/commercial website. Then secondhandedly WLUG mailing list contacted x number of individual contacts on behalf of the social/commercial website The message included a direct link to this commercial website. List members were invited to click on this link, or else to click on the UNsubscribe link.
Even sharing the WLUG contact address with outside entities is Non-OK. We all got Spammed because someone decided it was okay to give our email to ___.com..
Liz J
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)
On 23 March 2012 21:09, Eric Martin <eric.joshua.martin@gmail.com> wrote:
To clarify Liz, Linked In doesn't have your email address. They have wlug@wlug.org, and that contact opened X hundred emails.
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