Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sun May 10 01:26:39 UTC 2009


Bill Crawford wrote:

> Usually this is the result of "helpful" services that offer to read your 
> address book and "add your friends" ... unfortunately the proper 
> solution would be for address books to distinguish between mailing lists 
> and individual addresses, and these services to only add the latter. In 
> the meantime, I think the best solution would be to add specific checks 
> for known "annoying" things like LinkedIn to spamassassin or the like on 
> the list servers.
> 
A problem here is to allow legitimate messages referring to 
linkedin|facebook|myspace|other social networking sites and 
RHEL|Fedora|other relevant list/product. If these sites have standard 
subject lines, as this appears to be, then those could be filtered out 
as they appear.

I don't have a better solution than ensuring people see that this 
misconduct isn't acceptable.

Since my involvement with Fedora is just on a list or two and nobody 
sensibly would think I speak for the project or any of its affiliates, I 
don't feel any great need to exemplify the very epitome of politeness.

A few howls of derision are probably sufficient warning.


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Cheers
John

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