I have downloaded the latest invite list but have one concern. I imagine I'm connected with a good number of the people on the list and don't want to trouble anyone with invites if we are already connected. Is there a way to get around this effectively?

Thanks,
Tom

to rephrase:

Does Repeated Uploading of the "LIONs Invite List" lead to Inadvertent "Invite Spam" to Lions I Already Connect To?

The Answer is No.

This question arose back in the early days of LinkedIn.

LinkedIn has always been good at making sure users of LinkedIn don’t get repeat invites.

LinkedIn maps emails to unique profiles so if you upload a list of 100 emails and you connect to 50 of those emails already then you will only be able to send out invites to those 50 you aren’t connected to.

The corollary question is - if those you have sent an invite to, chose not to connect to you, will you be spamming them.

The answer again is no. LinkedIn keeps an invitation active for a period of time (I don’t know the current lenght of time before an Invite Expires but its serverl months for sure)



In Summary,

LinkedIn will automatically screen out both those you are connected to and those you have outstanding invites to, so that you can send out invites to others confident that you aren’t SPAMMING them with Invites to Connect



ONE EXCEPTION:

Those LinkedIn members who use multiple emails addresses and have failed to register ALL their emails with LinkedIn. LinkedIn considers every email a unique person UNLESS the members registers ALL their emails. Therefore, they could recieve repeat invites to those email addresses that they failed to register with LinkedIn



A LION BEST PRACTICE:

Be sure your LinkedIn Profile has ALL of your email addresses. This ensures maximum LinkedIn Connectedness with Minimum Confusion


This is a good question and I'm going to add this to our FAQs