<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 16:15, Ketil Malde <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ketil@malde.org">ketil@malde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">"Andrew Smith B.Sc(Hons),MBA" <<a href="mailto:asmith9983@gmail.com">asmith9983@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
> I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.<br>
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</div>Since LinkedIn tends to spam even more ambitiously than the other social<br>
network sites, I have a procmail rule sending any mail from Linkedin to<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>I should actually mention that this is a double infelicity: the OP has a <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a> address. gmail has an annoying tendency to add every address you've ever sent mail to to your primary address book; so telling something like LinkedIn to send invites to your address book, with the reasonable expectation that that means your actual contacts, suddenly turns into spamming the (your) known universe.</div>
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