[Elecraft] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn [END of related threads]

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft]

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

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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
>>