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From the headline and domain, I assumed this was about faking a death to stop LinkedIn emails.
by FLGMwt 10y ago
From the headline and domain, I assumed this was about faking a death to stop LinkedIn emails.
- d--b 10y agoYeah, and that LinkedIn was warning everyone that they'd find out, so just spare yourself the hassle.
- daveFNbuck 10y agoI recently closed my LinkedIn account, and it's worked surprisingly well so far to reduce the volume of LinkedIn e-mail.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoI never had an LinkedIn account and I get a suspicious amount of LinkedIn emails. The often are very creepy. One asked me to connect with my boss from a decade ago. Keep in mind, I've never had a LinkedIn account. Said boss didn't know my email address then and certainly doesn't know my new email address since its changed since the last time I've seen her a decade ago. Never seen her profile before that, never even knew she had a LinkedIn.
- voidz 10y agoThis is the perfect reason to use unique email addresses: they enable you to know exactly what the origin of the 'leak' is, and when you disable the address, the other addresses keep working normally.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoYou forgot to mention the prefect reason not to use a unique email address, its a pain in the ass and requires effort for very, very little return.
- eatbitseveryday 10y agoUnique addresses can be accomplished with aliases. Gmail allows <username>+label[+morewords]@gmail.com where + is ignored by Gmail servers when matching, and 'label' can be defined by you. This keeps emails routing to the same account, but allows you to filter.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoAnd? I am aware of that, my point stands "its a pain in the ass and requires effort for very, very little return." Good luck finding services that accept a + in the email address and this is so common you aren't fooling anyone, it takes just a couple lines of code to strip pluses out of gmail addresses to get the "real" address if you are a spammer.
- Retric 10y agoJust route all emails without the + to the trash.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoAnd for the services that don't accept email addresses with pluses...? And your friends/family/boss? They get unique pluses too? What about spammers who are smart enough to not remove but change the plus to random garbage before they send emails? Getting creepy LinkedIn spam is such a non-issue it isn't worth exerting even a moderate amount of effort.
- FireBeyond 10y agofirstname@lastname.com - works variation-on-first-name+servicename@lastname.com - works variation-on-first-name@lastname.com - black hole. Give friends #1. Give services #2.
- Retric 10y agoLinked in gets your email from your friends. So, they are the the source of these leaks.
- hodgesrm 10y agoThat would be an example of faking your death online. Something tells me we can really work with this notion.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoDead people usually don't close their accounts.
- 0xffff2 10y agoCan someone explain this to me? I have a Linkedin account, and the only time I get emails is when someone wants to connect with me. I opted out of all the other email categories, just like I do with every other site. Do people really get emails from Linkedin after opting out of every category?
- johnward 10y agoThey probably join groups and don't take the time to unsubscribe from the email digests.
- cptskippy 10y agoYou're assuming people getting emails have LinkedIn accounts. When someone with your email signs up for LinkedIn and then lets LinkedIn access their contacts, everyone of their contacts receives and email from LinkedIn and they now have your email address to do with as they please.
- pestaa 10y agoIsn't that illegal in the EU?
- JohnStrange 10y agoYes, it is.
- brandon 10y agoI've never had a LinkedIn account, and I've opted out of receiving "<Person> wants you to join their professional network on LinkedIn!" emails, and yet I somehow manage to get 2-3 messages from LinkedIn per month. https://twitter.com/darylginn/status/590664399041519617 https://twitter.com/darylginn/status/590664399041519617 rings true.
- ketralnis 10y agoI get emails on addresses that don't have linkedin accounts. I've opted out in every way indicated in the emails. They keep coming. AFAICT the only way to stop those is to actually create an account on that address. On the address that does have an account, I've opted out of every kind of email. They just keep adding new kinds of emails every few months that I then have to opt out of again.