Dear all,
Sorry about the spam email that got through to the list earlier today. It seems to have been caused by one of our subscribers giving the social networking company LinkedIn access to his email address book, probably unwittingly. Since LinkedIn is known for sending repeated invitations, I have unsubscribed that person. That should prevent further junk from that source, but -- please note: it is very difficult to block spam if you give someone your address book and permission to send as if from your account.
The moral of the story: beware social networking sites that ask for access to your contacts or for your Gmail, Yahoo, AOL (etc.) password.
There is a law suit in the USA about this practice of LinkedIn: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/linkedin-sued-by-users-who-say-it-hacked-their-e-mail-accounts/
Best,
Nick
Nicholas Elwyn Allott
RT list admin and
Research fellow
CSMN, IFIKK
University of Oslo
n.e.allott@csmn.uio.no
nicholas.allott@gmail.com
Received on Tue Oct 1 11:25:37 2013
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