960 LinkedIn employees will be let go... If only there was some kind of 'social network for suits' to assist job hunts Microsoft's social-media-for-suits platform, LinkedIn, is to axe 960 roles as it makes "strategic changes" to "accelerate the vision of the company". Employees around the world will be affected by these strategic changes, which will hit the company's Global Sales and Talent Acquisitions organisations, according to CEO Ryan …
I assume that most of them work on new ways to poke the users with spurious notifications.
"Your third level contact, Jizhammer Buttflower, recently posted a post you might or might not be interested in." That's the sort of thing I seem to have spent the last few months saying "do not show me this type of notification ever again" to, two or three times a day for the past three months.
Zippy´s Sausage Factory: "Your third level contact,..."
Isn't _everyone_ a 3rd level contact on Linkedin? I don't have that many contacts, but I do have a few recruiters, so I guess that's where it all links up, but when I check out anyone I come into contact with through work, new people from new companies,... yup, 3rd level.
Slightly related gripe:
Linkedin are the most difficult organisation to contact. If you have never had an account but want them to stop emailing you and to delete any data they somehow hold on you you literally cannot contact them (or I am crap at DuckDuckGo/Google). Any method listed to contact them requires an account, which requires giving them data, which is the exact opposite of what I want to do.
Yeah that's the plan. I just need to go to the post office to understand how many stamps get a letter to Ireland. Turns out spamming every standard term like
support@linkedin.com
contact@linkedin.com
no-reply@linkedin.com - (don't tell me what to do)
please-leave-me-alone@linkedin.com
etc
was not a success.
There *should* always be valid accounts at abuse@linkedin.com and postmaster@linkedin.com, but whether anyone reads them is anyone's guess. I did this myself when someone used my address to sign up to Pinterest, and I actually got a reply and apology (from one of the founders, I think - it was in their *very* early days).
@Zippy´s Sausage Factory: "someone losing their domain once because someone complained..."
Not quite the same thing as losing a domain, but in the relatively early days of public Internet and spam (think ~25 years ago when a lot fewer than 100% of members of the public had non-uni accounts and hardly anyone owned a domain) I started getting emails from an MP (not in the UK) who urged me to vote in a particular way in a municipal election. I didn't even live in the city in question and wasn't eligible to vote there. I sent an email to abuse@<ISP> (the ISP was easy to figure out from the personal email address the MP used), and to my surprise I got a thank-you note from the ISP the next day saying the MP's account had been deactivated due to my complaint.
In those days spam was starting to be a problem and ISPs were quite concerned about being blamed for allowing spammers to operate. Hence the swift reaction.
The recollection still gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling after all these years. Not because I didn't like the MP's politics, but because a spammer was neutralized (and, in this case, hopefully learned his lesson).
Spam from LinkedIn is much harder to get rid of. You'd be complaining to an interested party...
I assume they read this as a bit short of MUST.
That was apparently the way Adobe treated it when I tried to report porn-spam in less than an hour after giving them a (nonce) email address to register some software. The _only_ documented way to contact them was via registered (paper) mail to a lawyer in Los Angeles (well, using a L.A. post-box )
Linkedin is not quite that bad, but yeah, pretty much totally useless other than getting solicited by dodgy recruiters. Maybe twice I have been contacted by a former co-worker who had no other way to find me.
And then there was the resourceful chap who found me on LinkedIn based on my name in the documentation for some software that his company had bought several years before. I was a sub-sub-sub contractor on that, but hey, it was nice to know someone was actually using it, and the docs.
RFC2142 says (among other things):
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... mailbox name(es) must be supported, resulting in delivery to a recipient appropriate for the referenced service or role.
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But just because email is "delivered to a recipient..." does not mean that any particular action will be taken by that recipient. I did not read the whole RFC in detail, but I have to wonder if the recipient can be a bot that just replies:
"Sorry to hear about your problem. If you want anything to actually be done, you will need to send your message via paper mail (certified, and maybe return receipt requested) to the following post-office box which we are assured is occasionally checked by somebody who claims to work for a legal firm. Have a nice day"
Hmmm, it looks like bots are accounted for:
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Implementations of these well known names need to take account of the expectations of the senders who will use them. Sending back an automatic mail acknowledgement is usually helpful (though we suggest caution against the possibility of "duelling mail robots" and the resulting mail loops).
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Although:
1) I would assume that, these days, the "expectations of senders" with any experience of the current internet is that pretty much nothing will be done. Or that the whole process will resemble that of phone-response systems: "Your call is important to us. Please wait for someone to give a damn. Meanwhile, enjoy our music-on-hold rendition of Warner's Ring Cycle, as performed by the Kazoo section of the student orchestra of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople."
2) They seem to assume that duelling robots are the main issue (as opposed to "don't care, won't act", the new normal)
Beware the Leopard!
...didn't realize it was so intensive, aren't there google bots to send the annoying message that you have been a good customer, but we want you to be a better paying customer?
Glad my profile is barebones, and in a few years it will be meaningless when I quit twiddling bits for a living.
I assumed it was basically corporate espionage for MSFT
Lots of people at division X at Google are suddenly updating their resume = division X is getting shut down ?
All these people with ARM and modem backgrounds at Apple are logged on in the early hours = a new SOC from the fruity firm ?
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