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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