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> someone invited a whole mailing list

IIRC, LinkedIn would email everyone in your "address book" (or anything else it could find) back in the day.

You recall correctly. It is too bad they have been rewarded for it instead of the lot of c suite being sent to jail and ill gotten gains clawed back

Yes. When someone with Hotmail signed up it mauled all your contacts somehow with an invite.