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Linked-In has the spammiest email protocol out of any service I have ever used. Even after signing-in there is no one-click-to-unsubscribe button (they split it into about 12 scattered categories), and they create new categories periodically and opt you in to them. This is downright deceitful. Pro tip: change your email to one that you never use. It literally came down to doing this or deleting my Linked-in account--unfathomable to me. Also: no more f@#$!ng emails at 4 in the morning. This seems like a jackpot CAN-SPAM class action suit.

@easternmonk: That's the thing -- I did mark them as spam in GMail. I assumed it would block future emails from Linked-in but not the case. ... Somehow they continued to come in.

@sehugg: That too! I complained about their this on Facebook and I had friends (yes, plural) who had deleted their account because of the spam and yet were still receiving it. Unbelievable

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If you really want to kill ALL Linkedin messages choose the "Filter messages like these" option in Gmail. Then just enter "linkedin.com" in the From field. Done.

Some woman who was in my grandfather's contact list got spammed by LinkedIn for a month. There didn't seem to be any way to unsubscribe. She ended up hating my grandfather, because his name kept showing up on the emails! Of course he didn't know there wasn't going to be an opt-out. I ended up adding her email address to my LinkedIn account, so they would stop spamming her.

Not only that, but they send you emails even after you have deleted your account.

They repeatedly send you emails even if you don't have an account.

Just mark it as spam in Gmail.

change your email address with them to myoriginalusername+linkedin@whatever.com

Filter with gay abandon.

Came to leave this comment, not disappointed someone beat me to it.

(So why did you post, then?)

It gives me great joy that both posts appear downvoted. Hopefully mine will be too.

Agreed, spenvo! First thing I do when I sign up for a LI group is unsubscribe from all mailings (excepting a few which I chose to follow on a daily/weekly basis).

The next page after signing up for a LI group should be (unchecked) opt-in checkboxes for the mailings you'd like to receive.

Twitter, too, has twelve categories of email to opt yourself out of, although I don't believe that you're not automatically opted in to all of them (I unsubscribed long ago, so I can't be sure).

I agree completely with your description, of all the social services I have an account with, I find them to be the worst offender of emails and reminders.

You can also create filters to manage such emails so it doesn't clutter you're inbox, but still lets you see them if you want.

I did this with a college newsletter that was spammy, and had no method to unsubscribe. After repeatedly marking the email as spam to no avail, I set a filter up to send the message to the bin.

Change the email you use there to yourname+linkedin@gmail.com, and then filter it out. :)

I flag all LinkedIn email as spam, and yet I still find the occasional LinkedIn email in my inbox. You could call it Superspam!

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