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by _hyn3 20 days ago
> someone invited a whole mailing list

IIRC, LinkedIn would email everyone in your "address book" (or anything else it could find) back in the day.

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You recall correctly. It is too bad they have been rewarded for it instead of the lot of c suite being sent to jail and ill gotten gains clawed back
Yes. When someone with Hotmail signed up it mauled all your contacts somehow with an invite.