Détail de la mésaventure arrivée ailleurs (à une haute personnalité de
l'écosystème antispam):
Imagine my surprise (I imagine yours to be similar), when whilst
sitting around watching t.v. on a cold Sunday afternoon I was fiddling
with my new iPad, and decided during a commercial to cross-check my
gmail contacts to my LinkedIn contacts.
I was shown a short list of contacts, with no scroll-bar, (deselected
a few, actually) and hit 'ok'. Then I did it with my other gmail account.
Sigh.
The rest, as they say, is history. I'm not certain if it is because
I've been on LinkedIn for a long time, have a business account, have a
lot of existing contacts or some combination of these factors, but
somehow LinkedIn determined I was a suitable candidate to upload two
address books (yes, I overtly OK'ed this step), and invite them *all*
to 'get in touch', or to join LinkedIn.
Included in this wonderful offer were anti-spam mailing lists, people
I'd decidedly not prefer to stay in touch with, for example, spammers
about whom I've complained. LI also wrote to abuse desks to whom I've
complained about said spammers, and at least one (literally) dead
friend, a dead email list I used to run (or, at least, I thought it
was decommissioned), the billing alias for my telephone company, a
whole Smörgåsbord stuffed into a cornucopia of ill-placed messaging.
I do have no small number of people who accepted my offer (my dead
friend didn't). As, well, I received no small number of complaints.
[snip]
I'm uncertain if this was due to poor UI, generally or UI that only
displays on the iPad, and lousy policy regarding address book uploads
at LinkedIn and the way that Google aggregates contacts; I will
reiterate here what has always been my recommendation regarding such
things: Limit them to a maximum of 100, at any time, and should a list
have role accounts, the send be held until the validity can be humanly
verified. Neither of those things happened.
My two gmail accounts date back to 2006 and 2004 respectively, and I
didn't overtly add many of these addresses to my contact list. But
there you have it, a case in point and an object lesson in how
powerful the tools we use actually are, and the laxity in privacy that
is pervasive these days.
J'ai toujours trouvé ces fonctions d'import extrêmement invasives et mal
conçues, voilà qui me conforte dans ma position ...
Le 02/02/2011 02:29, vincent hinderer a écrit :
A priori, le problème viendrait du fait que LinkedIn propose de lier
ses contacts Gmail/Yahoo/etc. avec son compte.
Il semble que le site propose à ce stade de décocher quelques
contacts, mais que les invitations soient ensuite envoyés en masse à
tout le repertoire y compris les souscriptions à des ML (sauf les
contacts décochés).
(Disclaimer: pas testé/confirmé de mon côté)
Vincent
On 28/01/11 02:48, "Benjamin BILLON" <bbil...@splio.fr> wrote:
Ca c'est sympa.
C'est arrivé sur une autre liste aussi, Linkedin aurait-il changé
leur process d'invitation / rapatriement de carnet d'adresse ?
Le 28/01/2011 09:38, Marc Sokolovitch a écrit :
*LinkedIn
* J'aimerais vous inviter à rejoindre mon réseau
professionnel en ligne, sur le site LinkedIn.
Marc
Marc Sokolovitch
Propriétaire chez SOKOM eurl
Région de Paris , France
*Veuillez confirmer que vous connaissez Marc
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