[dba-Tech] Sayonara, LinkedIn

Hi Arthur,
 
The Professional Microsoft Access Developer's Network (PMADN) keeps the spammer's at bay.  The others, I agree are just a spam vehicles.
 
Rusty
 
 

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 From: Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> 
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2012 11:05 AM
Subject: [dba-Tech] Sayonara, LinkedIn
  
Well, I finally bit the bullet and closed my LinkedIn account. I joined
several groups on database and programming-related topics and received
about 100 spams per message of actual interest.

There are several groups there devoted to Access, SQL and databases in
general. Like a naive fool, I joined them all, and have discovered that
they are almost nothing but vehicles for spam.

I was tempted to post something there directing their members actually
interested in such things to DatabaseAdvisors.com, but then figured that
the spammers would soon follow suit and clog us, too, so I decided against
it. Which in a way is unfortunate, because amongst the crap there, there
are actually a few genuine people, and in particular, people who are
relatively new to Access, Excel, SQL, etc. -- which, harking back to a
previous thread, is just the sort of people we are looking for to join us.

Anyway, Sayonara, LinkedIn. It's been a slice.

Arthur
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