Originally Posted By Ian Wegg
I believe its usefulness is for people looking for work. I originally created an account in order to get the contact details of some of the I.T. contractors I was working with.

Mine was one of the accounts that got hacked due to their insecure systems a few years ago so I deleted my account. (Apparently the hacked account info has recently been openly for sale and I have noticed spam coming to my old linkedin email address).

~iw

I hate the fact that every time someone joins they harvest all the email addresses in their address book and who knows where they actually finish up. I am getting an increasing amount of spam on one of my email accounts. I will probably soon cancel that address.

Peter

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