On 1/28/2014 9:17 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 1/27/2014 10:57 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>> On 1/27/2014 8:32 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>> IME, LinkedIn started out to be for making business contacts. It has,
>>> as I said, degraded to "do you know this person or that person" Wanting
>>> the equivalent of 'friending' on Facebook.
>>
>> I never did ask you about it, but I got an email saying you
>> wanted me to sign up, or something like that. It was a few
>> years back.

> *I* didn't send it! I suspect they stole my address book. I
> unsubscribed last year but I still get emails asking if I know
> so-and-so. I finally saw the little unsubscribe link at the bottom of
> the requests to turn off email notifications.

If it was actually something from you, you'd have mentioned it
first. And if I thought it was something you actually wanted
me to sign up for, I would have said something.

There doesn't seem to be any protection for address books. This
isn't the only time I've gotten (or sent) stuff that was from
address book stealers.

nancy