Michelle Konzack <linux4miche...@tamay-dogan.net> writes: > Hello Chris, > > Am 2010-03-18 14:26:31, schrieb Chris Richman: >> Hi, Michael. If there is an email address that you'd like to never >> receive email from LinkedIn, let me know and I can add it to our >> suppression list. >> >> Sorry for the troubles. > > Is this a Joke? > > Should forward you all arround 3200 Linkedin Invites and remindesr? > > I suggest to blocklist following domains: > > @postgesql.org -> Mailinglist server > @gnome.org -> Mailinglist server but unfortunately > some private EMails too > @lists.denx.de -> Mailinglist server (e.g. "u-boot") > @lists.freeradius.org -> Mailinglist server > @lists.sourceforge.net -> Mailinglist server (e.g. alleg-main) > @lists.fedoraproject.org -> Mailinglist server > > @bugs.debian.org -> Debian Bug Tracking System > > if you mailbox support it, I have a script to forward all "LinkedIn" > spams to your Mailbox.
I refrained from commenting at first, mostly because I get far more facebook spam than linkedin spam. There seem to be two problems. One is that linkedin/facebook/etc. users manually type email addresses or click on 'add foo to your network', and some of this is spam (when the people are totally unknown). This seem intrinsic to the system. The other issue is bulk uploading of address books, and a feature to send invitation spam to everyone on the address book. In my view Offering bulk uploading/sending is a choice that any reasonable person would expect to lead to spam, and responsible services shouldn't do that. But in all my mails to abuse@, I've never gotten a straight answer. Are you willing to actually solve the bulk invitation spam by removing the mechanism? If not, are you willing to tag bulk-generated messages so they can be scored. ObOnTopic: I realize it's moving beyond the usual SA rules, but perhaps rules that assign scores based on failure to follow reasonable policies are in order. Giving 3 points to invitations that could be bulk-generated seems reaononable.
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