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Re:Automatically detecting and replying to recruiter spam by spacehunt on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @09:00AM (#29317858)
Quite often, it's easier for recruiters to get at your email address from GitHub because it's increasingly difficult to scrape contact details off LinkedIn.
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Re:Automatically detecting and replying to recruiter spam by Macha on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:51AM (#29319215)
That doesn't make it an acceptable reason to do so. They could probably google my home address easier than get LinkedIn to disintermediate themselves, but a barrage of recruiters at my doorstep would not be appreciated.
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Re:Automatically detecting and replying to recruiter spam by spacehunt on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @11:00AM (#29319322)
The truth is they probably don't know. These days the process of guesstimating an email address behind a LinkedIn profile is highly automated. Very often what a recruiter see on their dashboard is basically a list of potential candidates' LinkedIn profiles, paired with a list of plausible email addresses for each of them (with no indication of how the bots got them in the first place).
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Re:Automatically detecting and replying to recruiter spam by Macha on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @11:38AM (#29319881)
Automating a behaviour I disapprove of doesn't make me disapprove of their actions less.
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