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.




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