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No one escapes linkedin spam: https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/?q=i%27d+like+to+add+you+to+my+professional+network+on+linkedin&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date

No one escapes linkedin spam: https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/?q=i%27d+like+to+add+you+to+my+professional+network+on+linkedin&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=&noto=&count=50&sort=0#searchresult https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/?q=i%27d+like+to+add+you+to...

chatmasta 10y ago
I wonder how many hard drives could be filled with all the linkedin emails ever sent.
- jaytaylor 10y ago
  About 3 years ago I heard firsthand they were sending over a billion a month. I'm sure the numbers have only gone up...so probably quite a lot of raw data. That said, the actual overall entropy [0] is likely low (based on what I've observed in my inbox over the years; mostly just HTML templates with names and links). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
  - kbenson 10y ago
    I wish someone would try their luck with the spam laws on the books against linkedin. The likelihood of a win would be very low, but the benefit if they did win would be enormous to everyone.
    - jszymborski 10y ago
      That's happened: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/20/linkedin-sued-hacking-emails-spam_n_3963195.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/20/linkedin-sued-hacki... http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/linkedin-class-action-email-spam-1.3260225 http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/linkedin-class-action-email-...
      - kbenson 10y ago
        Actually, I was referring more to the recipient side, not the LinkedIn user side. I don't really see a big difference between someone selling their personal address book to LinkedIn and someone supplying it automatically. In both instances, both parties benefit (the user with connections or money, and LinkedIn with new user leads), and the recipients end up with unsolicited email. Using an address book to locate existing users and present them an option to connect is one thing. Using that address book to market to unknown people through their email addresses is clearly spam.
- empath75 10y ago
  I was a rave promoter in the early 2000s and was using my personal email address to send out promotions for a while. I had several thousands of emails that I had collected over the years, including a few email lists that forwarded all over the country. Several years ago, I signed up for linked in, dutifully unchecked the 20 emails or so on the first page of emails and then clicked, next, after which it emailed the entire rest of my gmail contact list. I ended up in the top 5% of viewed profiles on all of linked in for the month. I felt terrible about it.
  - jandrese 10y ago
    LinkedIn is king of dark patterns. Their webpage is full of "spam everyone you have ever known" landmines.
    - nathancahill 10y ago
      = $26.2B.

chatmasta 10y ago

I wonder how many hard drives could be filled with all the linkedin emails ever sent.

jaytaylor 10y ago
About 3 years ago I heard firsthand they were sending over a billion a month. I'm sure the numbers have only gone up...so probably quite a lot of raw data. That said, the actual overall entropy [0] is likely low (based on what I've observed in my inbox over the years; mostly just HTML templates with names and links). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
- kbenson 10y ago
  I wish someone would try their luck with the spam laws on the books against linkedin. The likelihood of a win would be very low, but the benefit if they did win would be enormous to everyone.
  - jszymborski 10y ago
    That's happened: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/20/linkedin-sued-hacking-emails-spam_n_3963195.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/20/linkedin-sued-hacki... http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/linkedin-class-action-email-spam-1.3260225 http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/linkedin-class-action-email-...
    - kbenson 10y ago
      Actually, I was referring more to the recipient side, not the LinkedIn user side. I don't really see a big difference between someone selling their personal address book to LinkedIn and someone supplying it automatically. In both instances, both parties benefit (the user with connections or money, and LinkedIn with new user leads), and the recipients end up with unsolicited email. Using an address book to locate existing users and present them an option to connect is one thing. Using that address book to market to unknown people through their email addresses is clearly spam.
empath75 10y ago
I was a rave promoter in the early 2000s and was using my personal email address to send out promotions for a while. I had several thousands of emails that I had collected over the years, including a few email lists that forwarded all over the country. Several years ago, I signed up for linked in, dutifully unchecked the 20 emails or so on the first page of emails and then clicked, next, after which it emailed the entire rest of my gmail contact list. I ended up in the top 5% of viewed profiles on all of linked in for the month. I felt terrible about it.
- jandrese 10y ago
  LinkedIn is king of dark patterns. Their webpage is full of "spam everyone you have ever known" landmines.
  - nathancahill 10y ago
    = $26.2B.