John,
Exactly, I do not click usubscribe links either, in most cases for exactly
the same reason.
But there are some exceptions.
It's of course up to you in this case as well.
But I just wanted to mention that if you use a link to open in the browser
(i.e. not sending an e-mail message to usubscribe), there is no technical
way how that website can determine which account you are using to read
your messages. They can only know the address to which they sent that
message.
The rest is voodoo.
Igor
John Thu, 21 Jan 2016 09:29:21 -0800 wrote:
I don't click unsubscribe links because that just verifies they've got
my valid email address.
And since I'm probably reading them from a different email account
(thanks to Time-Warner Roadrunner screwing up their email server,
forcing me to get a different account and use a forward file for TWC
RR), it would give them my new email address as well.
Fuck 'em!
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
When LinkedIn (as well as Facebook and a few other social and
professional-flavor social networks) is asking you to give access to your
e-mail account (Gmail, Yahoo, ...), -- looks at all addresses you have there
(people to whom you sent e-mail messages, and possibly those from whom you
received messages, and those in your address book), and sends invitations
without your knowledge (to "People You May Know").
The solution is simple: NEVER give access to your email to ANY program or
website. You don't let the door-to-door sales people into your house to look
in you snail mail and your address book. Why would you trust LinkedIns,
Facebooks, etc.?! Some people are just too naive, and that why social
engineering works. That's how you get hacked or your identity stolen: by
believing everything that's written "on the [restroom] wall"
This morning I also received an "invitation" from LinkedIn on behalf of a
certain PDML member. That's an indication that he opened his e-mail to
LinkedIn. That had happened to a few other PDML members in the past (with
LinkedIn and FB).
John, you can actually use the link at the bottom of that "invitation"
message to stop future messages from LinkedIn or FB. That a very rear case
when I would consider unsubscribing from the message(s) I didn't subscribe
to. But I agree, it is annoying.
Igor
John Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:19:37 -0800 wrote:
Correction - it's LinkedIn without a dash.
It's not just one PDML list member. I've received multiple invites on
multiple occasions to join LinkedIn from multiple list members.
I don't think the list members are sending them intentionally, but the
SPAM does appear to come from the list members' LinkedIn accounts.
Anyone who is a member of LinkedIn, please check your account settings.
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