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LinkedIn's customer service has a tool that will remove all of these for you and remove them from the recipient inboxes (on the service, obviously it can't remove the email copies) as well, should this happen to anyone else. It was mentioned in the aftermath of the Matt Haughey LinkedIn situation.
Is there a way to opt out from receiving such emails, for those who are not on Linkdin to begin with?
You could probably set up a filter, but this is sort of like asking if you can ask the USPS to not deliver any mail from a particular individual.
> Last week I fell into a Linkedin’s trap. The best way to avoid future traps: http://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/63
Why did that require a loading screen and 'widgets'? http://i.imgur.com/1eok5yj.png
Edit: oh, every linkedin help center page says "Oracle" in the bottom right? I never understood this kind of branding... does it really help something?
Man, I hate LinkedIn. This is a perfect example of why. Do people actually take their service seriously?
> Last week I fell into a Linkedin’s trap. The best way to avoid future traps: http://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/63
FYI to other account-closers, you can download all your connections (the names, at least) by loading e.g. http://www.linkedin.com/profile/profile-v2-connections?id=YO...
I like the idea of a social network for professional contacts, but LinkedIn is just too slimy. I'll just link people to my own website & portfolio in the future.
But there is one thing about LinkedIn's implementation that is just inexcusable: They send the emails in such a way that they get through to all mailing lists the "sender" of the message is subscribed to! So every week or so somebody else will accidentally invite the entire local cycling community or a nationwide robotics mailing list to become their contacts on LinkedIn. It's embarrassing to the "sender" and wastes the recipients time. Way to generate hate, LinkedIn!
(I know that identifying mailing lists can't be 100% accurate, but both of the examples have addresses matching @lists. And if you weren't sending the emails in the senders name in the first place, you wouldn't have this problem.)
Sendgrid strikes again! (they send email for LinkedIn)
to be honest, don't you think this is more of an issue with how linkedin is using sendgrid instead of sendgrid itself?
LinkedIn's customer service has a tool that will remove all of these for you and remove them from the recipient inboxes (on the service, obviously it can't remove the email copies) as well, should this happen to anyone else. It was mentioned in the aftermath of the Matt Haughey LinkedIn situation.
Could you please provide the link for the tool?
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Could you please provide the link for the tool?
As I said, LinkedIn's CS has it. You submit a request to them and they use something on their end to zap away all the unaccepted invites.
I already sent the request about week ago. And they replied just today. Unfortunatelly too late. I think it was good thing don't waiting for them with my arms crossed. I probably avoided a lot of new unwanted connections.
The funniest thing is that they said I have still have 50 pending sent invitations that I did not withdraw. But Linkedin's sent invitations page says "There are no sent invitations.".