While I agree that some of the replies to the original message were not entirely necessary, I would not go so far as to consider them "spam". In any conversation, sometimes people say things you are not interested in hearing. Being a member of a mailing list is like being a part of many conversations at once - some of them will be interesting, some will not, and some will be a mix of both. I don't think it's productive to complain that you are getting messages you don't want. We all are. That's just how it is. I would recommend using sorting rules in your mail client of choice to put NANOG emails into a dedicated folder. It makes it easier to sort out the noise. On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 9:26 PM Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com> wrote:
And for one that SPAM message that was sent to you on LI, now you've made a bunch of SPAM for all the NANOG folks to read through.
Thanks for that...
-Mike
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 6:21 PM Mark Foster <blakjak@blakjak.net> wrote:
at 5:40 PM, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.1812111157380.6800@whammy.cluebyfour.org> you write:
Agreed, and I do get unsolicited Linkedin requests quite often. Sometimes, this is clearly the result of someone scraping a list like NANOG in an effort to drum up new business/contacts. Those end up in the bitbucket.
When you turn down a connection there should be "I don't know this person" which demotes them somehow. I gather that with enough of those, you can't do invites any more.
This was the case back when LinkedIn were actively enforcing their TOS. LinkedIn was largely started as and designed to be a referral service. As far as I can tell though, they’ve been letting strangers freely connect with one another for years now.
I've seen success with the 'I don't know this person' feedback system as well, and encourage it's use.
Unfortunately for LinkedIn there's a whole breed of L.I.O.N. (LinkedIn Open Networker) folks who believe in extending their social circle first and breeding connections from there.
Somewhat akin to Twitter users who blindly follow everyone they come across, mainly in the hope of a reciprocal follow and not because they have any intent to interact with the person they're following, or even ever read their timeline. It's exposure, exposure, exposure.
Mark.
-- Mike Lyon mike.lyon@gmail.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlyon