Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Ash Berlin]

On 15 Oct 2008, at 15:09, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 14:33 +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
>
>>> I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.
>>
>> Ah well, I suppose it was useful to some people while it lasted. Now
>> I guess it's gone the way of Plaxo.
>
> it's still somewhat useful to identify professionals asking  
> questions on
> open source projects mailing list behind the @gmail.com smokescreen;  
> or,
> at least, that's how I've been using it for a while.
>
> ciao,
> Emmanuele.
>

Since when did professional mean that they didn't contribute anything  
to open source projects?