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Consider yourself lucky. I get hundreds per year. Maybe 1 in 50 are decently relevant. Many are mass spams. A good amount will be in tech I have no interest
by tedmiston 4y ago
Consider yourself lucky.
I get hundreds per year.
Maybe 1 in 50 are decently relevant.
Many are mass spams. A good amount will be in tech I have no interest in, haven't worked in in over a decade, or have never worked in. It's clear the messages are sent without ever actually reading your profile or even job titles.
I wish there were a way to control only the handcrafted / non-spam messages reaching my inbox.
- jjulius 4y agoThe ones that really grind my gears are the ones that clearly guessed your current work email address based on your LI profile and standard business email username formats.
- tedmiston 4y agoOh for sure. I bet `<first name>@<small company>` or `<first.last>@<company>` goes a very long way. There are seem to be some techniques for verifying existence of an email address without actually emailing it. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/565504/how-to-check-if-an-email-address-exists-without-sending-an-email https://stackoverflow.com/questions/565504/how-to-check-if-a... I tried the below services with a custom G Suite domain and, to my surprise, they successfully worked, even for addresses that I know have never been posted publicly (!). https://email-checker.net/validate https://email-checker.net/validate https://clean.email/verifier/how-to-check-if-an-email-is-valid https://clean.email/verifier/how-to-check-if-an-email-is-val...
- reillyse 4y agoI have a PhD and so have Dr as my first name on LinkedIn. All the automated messages address me as if Dr was my actual first name, So “hi Dr” or “Dr,…” So it’s a good filter for all the machine created messages, which is a very very high percentage of them.