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Yay! Using the info here, I finally liberated myself from that incessant LinkedIn spam:

LinkedIn Customer Support Message

 

Subject: Add My Email To Do Not Contact List

Hi Karen,


I truly apologize for the delay in my response.

Per your request, I've added your karen.nakamura@yale.edu email address to 

our "do not contact" list. 

You will no longer receive any email from LinkedIn or our members on this 

email address. If you decide at a later date that you want to set up a 

LinkedIn account, you will need to first contact 

us to have your email address removed from the “do not contact” list.

If you have further questions, please feel free to reply to this message.

Regards,

Jevgenia

LinkedIn Customer Service

Original Contact:

Member Comment: Karen Nakamura	01/17/2012 01:33

Please add my e-mail to your do not contact list. I have no wish to ever use linkedin. 

Thank you.

Karen Nakamura

My pal Eric sent me this link:

Some links for further cogitation:

• Narrative Journalism: Subjectivity, No Longer a Dirty Word
• Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges in Their Work
• NY Times Ethics

I was trying to find a link to the oft-quoted dilemma of TV news crews in disasters -- keep filming the person being swept away by a river, or jump in to save them. But couldn't. Readers?

As a faculty member of an Ivy league, I get a lot of crazy e-mails. This one seemed legit at first:

Dear Professor,

The Beverly Hills Times Magazine is considering running an article on the hypotheses, biography, and pictures located at [redacted]. We are asking for your assistance because your extensive expertise was brought to our attention. …

Our main goal at this point is to determine whether there is any established scientific evidence that tends either to support or invalidate the hypotheses. We would also consider publishing one of your own articles as trade for your contribution. We are interested in opinions from multiple fields of expertise. If you do not have time please feel free to forward this to a colleague.

but there were too many red flags. I decided to see if there was any legitimacy to it, and it turns out that there isn't: http://icbseverywhere.com/blog/2010/03/how-to-live-forever-or-i-get-email/

While not a phishing attack, malware, or a Nigerian prince with the last name of Nakamura, it's still a type of link bait scam. Avoid.

And don't feed the trolls.