Re: Salesmen: ARIN Records are NOT Leads

[Ross Tajvar <ross () tajvar io>]

After setting up my ASN, I received unsolicited emails from NTT and calls
from Cogent. Fortunately I haven't gotten anything (or at least anything
that I noticed) on LinkedIn.

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 12:58 PM Brielle Bruns <bruns () 2mbit com wrote:

> On 12/19/2018 9:58 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 09:49:29AM -0700, Brielle Bruns wrote:
> > > Every time I post to NANOG, I get multiple LinkedIn link requests or
> e-mails
> > > about selling my excess gear.  It's getting old real quick.
> >
> > I recommend:
> >
> >       Connect:linkedin.com    ERROR:5.7.1:"550 Mail refused"
> >       From:linkedin.com       ERROR:5.7.1:"550 Mail refused"
> >
> > Salt to taste for your environment/MTA, but since the spammers running
> > LinkedIn seem very unlikely to stop, this appears to be the optimal
> > way to conserve bandwidth and time.
> >
> > ---rsk
>
>
> Except you know, those of us who actually use LinkedIn for professional
> contacts and all.  I don't mind connecting with people as long as I've
> actually talked with you before on some professional level.
>
> It does have some nice features for connecting on a business level, just
> people are abusing the shit out of it.
> --
> Brielle Bruns
> The Summit Open Source Development Group
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