Folks - Please do -not- post complaints, questions comments or othe replies to unwanted postings like the Linkedin requests or other spam that occasionally hit the list. Your replies dwarf the number of actual spam emails, causing -way- more list noise than needed.
Postings like this usually get through to the list when a spammer either spoofs a list member's address, or when a list subscriber legitimately joins Linkedin and by mistake gives it access to their address book for further invites. Linkedin is a legitimate professional social network (I even use it). The Elecraft list server requires posters to be subscribed to the list as a primary posting filter. The qth.net server who hosts the list blocks a huge number of daily spams before they are even seen by us. We then manually review 50-100 more attempted spam postings daily. (Its a lot of work to review these emails..) Inevitably, a few spams will occasionally make it through. Please ignore them. (The delete key is -really- fast ;-) If we notice multiple unwanted posts, spam etc from a legitimate list subscriber address that make it to the list, we set their address to 'moderate' so we can review and block further unwanted postings. If its clear their address is not legitimate we unsubscribe it. In any case, discussing it here is non-productive and outside of the official list guidelines. Please email the moderator (me) if absolutely necessary, but do not post comments to the list. This thread is closed. 73, Eric Elecraft List moderator --- www.elecraft.com On 11/10/2011 9:44 AM, David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote: > It's spam - something accessing peoles email addresses and sending the > request. > 73 de M0XDF (K3 #174, P3 #108, KX3 #???) > > On 10 Nov 2011, at 17:33, Martin Staffa wrote: > >> Why use Linkedln on this website and why are they sent over the reflecter >> ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
