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Invitation to +owner to connect on Linkedin

Marina All Messages By This Member #8051 I have set my +owner address to receive all mails so that prospective members can contact me as the group owner even if they are not subscribed yet. Everything worked fine but in the last days I have received twice to the address +owner an invitation to connect to a person on Linkedin. This person is unknown to me, she is not a member of my group (at least, with the name shown in the invitation) and I am not on Linkedin with the +owner address. How is this possible? Has anyone had a similar experience? Marina
Duane All Messages By This Member #8052 LinkedIn is one of those annoying sites that seems to use a person's address book to send out "spam".? Based on my experience, it does seem to be one of the few that will honor the unsubscribe link in the email. Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions
Bruce All Messages By This Member #8054 On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 07:44 am, Marina wrote: This person is unknown to me, she is not a member of my group (at least, with the name shown in the invitation) and I am not on Linkedin with the +owner address. How is this possible? Has anyone had a similar experience? It's just a spammer. It's not that hard to mine groups.io for legitimate addresses. If group "abc" is in the groups.io directory, then by definition abc(plus)owner(at)groups(dot)io is a legitimate email address. Nothing to see here. Bruce
Jim Betz All Messages By This Member #8056 Marina, ? Linkedin is simply a different form of spam.? And the people who are the source of it (your members who are on Linkedin) do not know how they are being 'used' by Linkedin.? My advice is "simply ignore".? Always. ? There is a "Catch-22" about growing your group (getting new members). ? If you "open up" you also expose yourself or the group to unwanted spam and other such things.? Please note - the 'purpose' of the group is usually not used by spammers to 'target' their spam - they could care less and will simply send it ... and "it" can be highly objectionable - or it can be relatively innocuous. ? Yes, there are also spammers who are targeting - for instance if you join a group about dealing with a particular disease it is amazing how quickly you start receiving spam about the disease (or general? health topics).? Targeting spammers are simply trying to increase their 'hit rate' (how often someone clicks thru - which is how they get paid).?? ? On the other hand - if you "close down" the growth rate goes WAY down. ? Many groups use "by invitation only" and that is fine and does help. But if your goal is to get 'more members' then it won't work for you. Other groups have very specific interests - and rely upon word of mouth for others with the same interests to "find them".? But those groups always have very active moderators and always set up the group to be "moderated until a certain number of posts have been approved". ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? - Jim B.
Lena Member Profile All Messages By This Member #8059 On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 07:44 am, Marina wrote: I have received twice to the address +owner an invitation to connect to a person on Linkedin. Linkedin spams every email address in every new sucker's address book. So do other "social networks". It's how Facebook got so big - by spamming.
Shal Farley Member Profile All Messages By This Member #8064 Heh, Lena wrote: Linkedin spams every email address in every new sucker's address book. So do other "social networks". ? But only every new sucker. I never give LinkedIn, Facebook, or any other "social" site access to my address book. I think that grant would come with the ability access to the content of saved messages - which would be way too much to put at risk even if I didn't mind them spamming (er, inviting) my friends and other correspondents. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list
Bruce All Messages By This Member #8068 On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 09:48 am, Lena wrote: Linkedin spams every email address in every new sucker's address book. There are currently 6625 public groups in the groups.io directory. If I was so inclined, I could go to "Find or Create a Group," spider those 6625 names, convert each to an +owner email address, and know that every message I sent would go through. Just because the spammer sent the message from LinkedIn is no reason to believe Marina's address book was compromised. Having said that, I agree LinkedIn has certainly become a spammer's playground in the last few years. Let's hope that doesn't happen to groups.io. Bruce
Marina All Messages By This Member #8099 On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 09:48 am, Lena wrote: Linkedin spams every email address in every new sucker's address book. << Thank you everybody for your answers and thoughts. Linkedin might be a spammer, but I have been on that network for quite a number of years and never had any problem, nor people on my address book ever complained about unsolicited invitations (and there are a few bellicose people on my address book). What I don't understand is how this person has my +owner address in her address book. She is not a member of my group (which, by the way, is very restricted and moderated. The only open door is my +owner address, thank you Jim Betz for drawing my attention to this) and she has never contacted me on the +owner address. If she actually wanted to connect with me on Linkedin, she could have just sent an invitation to my public profile. So far, I have simply ignored her invitations by deleting them from my mailbox. I cannot formally and definitively "ignore" them through Linkedin, as I would normally do, because the +owner address is not registered on Linkedin, thus the invitations do not show anywhere. There is an Unsubscribe link at the bottom of each invitation, but I hesitate to use it as I am not sure whether that would unsubscribe me from the regular invitations, too (= those going to my official profile). Marina
Duane All Messages By This Member #8100 On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 03:01 am, Marina wrote: There is an Unsubscribe link at the bottom of each invitation, but I hesitate to use it as I am not sure whether that would unsubscribe me from the regular invitations, too Unfortunately, I've had to use that link several times, once for each of my email addresses.? It only stops the emails to the address you supply, in this case groupname+owner@... Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions
Jim Betz All Messages By This Member #8102 Marina, ? Go to your Group Settings and check "Visibility" ... some of the possible Visibility are tricky (they can be permanent/irreversible).? Yes, if you make changes here you can (will?) affect whether or not potential? new members can "discover" your group.? As I said before you will, at some point, have to make the difficult decision related to the trade off between being "open or closed". ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? - Jim B.

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