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   Don Y to All   
   Re: good post on LinkedIn   
   30 Jan 26 04:36:44   
   
   From: blockedofcourse@foo.invalid   
      
   On 1/29/2026 7:26 AM, Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester wrote:   
   > LinkedIn is legally obligated to provide copies of comments, but   
   > LinkedIn acts illegally. If you want to back up comments which you   
   > uploaded to LinkedIn, then now might be the time to back them up.   
      
   Why not just scrape the site and periodically update that -- instead   
   of trying to encapsulate it in a single document.   
      
   > LinkedIn forced me to spend tens of minutes to scroll through circa 3   
   > months of comments. I used Microsoft Edge to   
   > "Save as type: Webpage, complete", producing an 86-megabytes copy. I   
   > used Microsoft Egde to produce an unsatisfactory 249-page,   
   > 238-megabytes PDF copy (Print --> Printer --> Save as PDF). Sic. 238   
   > megabytes versus 86 megabytes for only the same comments.   
   >   
   > Uploading this PDF version to Insomnia 24/7 took circa twenty minutes.   
   >   
   > Microsoft Edge took circa 12 minutes to produce this PDF file.   
      
   None of hose metrics mean anything.  It takes me an hour to get to the post   
   office (on foot!).   
      
   I can't comment on LinkedIn as no one that I know uses it.   
   My understanding (?) is that it is a networking site -- a   
   way to "get jobs".   
      
   Most of my colleagues have more than enough work without   
   any sort of "advertising" or "job mining".  Makes you wonder   
   what the folks using it are lacking...  (REAL contacts??)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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