&gt; My guess is somebody gave their address book to LinkedIn<br><br>Obviously so.<br><br>Jason also commented:<br><br>&gt; Just need to be careful letting sites and apps go through your email 
contacts<br><br>Not just &quot;be careful&quot; but more like: &quot;Do Not allow&quot; sites and apps any access to your email 
contacts at all. <br><br>Ppls contact info is not owned by whoever has the person in their 
Contacts list. <br><br>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.<br>
<br>Liz J<br>