Linked In

[dilwyn]

Can I please politely ask QL users NOT to invite me to friend/join LinkedIn.

I have been in dispute with them over this for a long time now and know of MANY, MANY people in the same situation.

I used to be on there and despite repeated and totally ignored attempts to persuade them to remove me from there because I got so heavily spammed from there (I know of many people in the same situation) I am getting bombarded with dozens of daily reminders about ignored invitations which I cannot stop them sending to me - I may have to ask my ISP to block them, but one request has already been denied as I can't prove they aren't a bona fide organisation.

I have tried to set up an email rule to delete mails coming in form them but after a few days it seems to start finding its way through again - they seem to change their details regularly to work their way around such filters, which is surely making them a candidate for legal action, not the kind of practice a bona fide company or network would engage in.

[Dave]

I had a similar experience with LinkedIn.

Click on Settings (under your name on the right side of the page)
Click on Email Settings (left side of page, under Profile)

You will now be able to change the following options:

[*] The types of messages you're willing to receive (none)
[*] The frequency of emails (never)
[*] Who can send you invitations (nobody)
[*] The frequency of group digest emails (never)

Click on each option to change your settings.

I now get about one mail a year from them. I always mark it as a spam in google (they handle my mail for all my domains)...

As a precaution (and I note several people registering on my own website follow the same practice!) I always give companies <companyname@mydomain.com> as an email. Then I can always attribute a specific leaker/seller/spammer, and close the offending account and mailbox.

If this doesn't help, I don't know what will.

[dilwyn]

Thanks Dave, this would be good were it not for the fact I no longer have an account. I closed it (well, tried to, it no longer lets me log in anyway) a while back. Even that process was a nightmare. Sadly, people can still see me there!

What's annoying is that these 'invite' emails have an Unsubscribe option. No matter how often I unsubscribe they keep coming, although I guess that probably all 'Unsubscribing' does is tell them my email address is still active.

The latest LinkedIn ones come from an invite by QL user Rick Chagouri-Brindle for whom I have no email address to ask if he would try to 'un-invite' me to try to stop these annoying emails (Rick: if you are on here could you please try for me?)

I'll just keep setting up "auto-deletes off servers" for them every time they change their details and plead with everyone who might know me not to send me invitations. BTW, when I said SPAM, I meant direct from them (not other companies) - I consider their own unwanted emails spam and potentially illegal as they persist in offering my details despite me having closed my account with them and told them I no longer wish to have any dealings with them and no details of me to be displayed.