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If you send an “InMail” (the method to send a direct email to a certain contact on Linkedin) and the recipient is not interested in what you are asking him or, in general, in what you are saying, I find really impolite to mark that email as “inappropriate“. Don’t respond or respond  ”I’m not interested”, but please don’t mark it as inappropriate in the Linkedin system. If you mark it as inappropriate, the system understands “it’s a disturbing and inappropriate email”, something that is not.

Alternatively, if you don’t want to receive InMails, specify it explicitly, so the system prevents me to send it to you. Or, just give up on LinkedIn if you don’t want to get the most out of it or.. if you just don’t get it.

An InMail has to be marked inappropriate if I send SPAM to you, something that I never did, or if I try to disturb you (well, SPAM again). Every Linkedin user has an InMail Rate, that measures the level of appropriate contact requests. Due to three VERY IMPOLITE people (out of hundreds InMails sent in two years) my rate is now 4/5 while it has always been 5/5.

If you join a social network like LinkedIn, please take the time to learn how to use it.

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