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Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” by Abishek_Muthian on Friday February 12, 2021 @11:20AM (#26115250)
I wonder whether the LinkedIn profile of the customer was directly handed out to the Canonical by MS, because invite by email on LinkedIn cannot send 'custom invite message', Canonical Agent seems to have manually sent an invite with custom message which leaves us with two possibilities -

1. Agent had enough details at hand to confirm that the LinkedIn profile was indeed that of the customer.

2. Access to LinkedIn profile itself (e.g. profile URL).

If 2. how did MS make that association? AFAIK there's no mechanism for the user to connect LinkedIn profile to Azure or vice versa.

P.S. I know MS owns LinkedIn.

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Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” by detaro on Friday February 12, 2021 @11:24AM (#26115315)
He stated the LinkedIn profile was under a different email (makes sense, not corporate one). I'd guess 1: name+company matching was enough.
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Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” by hobofan on Friday February 12, 2021 @12:20PM (#26116013)
Isn't that even possibly illegal? I mean contacting someone on a personal channel for unsolicited B2B sales?
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Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” by adambyrtek on Friday February 12, 2021 @01:43PM (#26116967)
Sadly, I get B2B marketing spam like that all the time as CTO, so I'm definitely not as shocked as others in this thread.
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Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” by gowld on Friday February 12, 2021 @01:01PM (#26116522)
How is LinkedIn a "personal" channel, and why would it be illegal anyway? Direct marketing isn't illegal.
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Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” by hobofan on Friday February 12, 2021 @03:03PM (#26117941)
Depending on the jurisdiction it might be. E.g. in Germany cold calls (actual phone calls) even for B2B are only legal under certain conditions (generally either preexisting registration of intent, or if it's common in the specific industry). I'm not sure what the regulations regarding cold e-mail or messaging are, though.
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