I think I've found the reason of this unusual behaviour of LinkedIn (or whatever else). Robert, you sent the invitation to David Best (right?), so I opened the mail full header and found that David Best address was oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anyway, as Mark Bobak said, no great harm derived.....I'd rather receive a LinkedIn invitation every day, instead of dozens of *real* annoying spam :)) Alessandro ---------- Initial Header ----------- From : oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To : "Goulet, Richard" Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx, aluoor@xxxxxxxxx Cc : "David Best" oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date : Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:40:14 -0700 (PDT) Subject : Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn >I had logged into Linked in, but I didn't think I'd sent out any requests.... >There are new spam mail pages.... maybe somehow I fired one of those off. >Again, my apologies! :) > >RF > > Robert G. Freeman >Master Principal Consultant, Oracle Corporation, Oracle ACE >Author of various books on RMAN, New Features and this shorter signature line. >Blog: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com > > > > >________________________________ >From: "Goulet, Richard" <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx> >To: aluoor@xxxxxxxxx; robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx >Cc: David Best <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Wed, July 14, 2010 8:33:37 AM >Subject: RE: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn > >I seriously doubt it's Robert who's doing this. More likely the SOB's >at LinkedIn. Anything to pull in more suckers. > > > >Dick Goulet >Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Lead >PAREXEL International > >-----Original Message----- >From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sven Aluoor >Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:08 AM >To: robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx >Cc: David Best >Subject: Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn > >On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Robert Freeman ><robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> LinkedIn >> >> Robert Freeman requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: >> >> David, >> >> I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. >> >> - Robert >[...] > >Hi Robert > >please stop spamming this list with Web 2.0 bulls*** > >cheers Sven >-- >//www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l