I gave academia.edu permission to send membership requests to every email on
my Google Contacts list, over 500 I believe, after downloading a very useful
2010 13-page paper for free, and seeing how much they made available -- I
felt a business that recruits highly competent members would be legitimate
-- also believe you are safe as long as you withhold consent -- I did lose a
computer to CyberDefender scam malware in January, by inadvertently
downloading their free purported virus scam program -- a Google search later
revealed that they have actually operating for years as a "legitimate"
corporation with stock, while their stock has fallen from $ 3 to .45 ...

I've never seen any bad news about LinkedIn, which Friam members led me to
join.

What to do?

within mutual service,   Rich Murray

[email protected]
505-819-7388
Skype audio, video rich.murray11

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Nicholas Thompson <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Rich, ****
>
> ** **
>
> I have this uneasy feeling that you may be giving away people’s email
> addresses to some Evil Force.   Evil or not, passing on other  people’s
> emails without their consent is …. Um …. Not great.  I am very suspicious of
> LinkDin and god knows what  Academia.Edu is.  ****
>
> ** **
>
> N****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Rich Murray [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of
> *Rich Murray
> *Sent:* Friday, August 26, 2011 6:30 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Rich Murray added you to Clark University on Academia.edu****
>
> ** **
> [image: Description: Image removed by sender. 
> Academia.edu]<http://academia.edu/>
> ****
>
> Hi Nick,****
>
> Rich Murray added your name to Clark University on Academia.edu, the global
> directory of academics and graduate students. We checked your department
> directory, and it looks like you are at Clark University. You are currently
> listed as an 'unknown' member: resolve your 'unknown' status by following
> one of the links below:****
>
> Yes, I am at Clark University:
>
> http://academia.edu/Yes-Nick-Thompson--nthompson-at-clarku.edu--is-at-Clark-University
> ****
>
> No, I am not at Clark University:
>
> http://academia.edu/Remove-Nick-Thompson--nthompson-at-clarku.edu--from-the-Clark-University-directory
> ****
>
> Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker have all
> confirmed their membership of their departments on Academia.edu.****
>
> Thanks,
> The Academia.edu Team****
>
> Academia.edu's office is at: 251 Kearny St., Suite 520, San Francisco, CA,
> 94108. To opt out of receiving these kinds of emails from Academia.edu, go
> to: http://academia.edu/optout/010003522bb39108606788c7953c8ca2 ****
>

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