Apparently spam emails have been sent to many list members from my email address.  I apologize for the inconvenience.  I am often asked by students [and sometimes also by other faculty members and scholars] to join their professional network.  I am not much interested in such things, but I often accept the invitation, out of ritual politeness [you know, what is called interaction ritual].  In this case, when I accepted the 'invitation' I was taken to some loop from which I could not find a way to escape.  As a result, this obnoxious website was able to troll my email address book and send fake 'invitations' from 'me' to everyone on my address book.

 

This is spam.  It is not a virus or malware.  Thus nobody's computer is in any danger.  I  am sorry  for any inconvenience to you.   But the greatest inconvenience has been to me, since I have had to answer roughly 25 emails asking me if my 'invitation' was genuine.

 

It wasn't.  It was spam.

 

Best wishes,

 

George Thompson