LinkedIn — professional social network and useless email generator — just settled a class-action lawsuit...for sending too many emails.

In May, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner told BuzzFeed News that "there are certain members to whom we're sending too much email," in a live interview with San Francisco Bureau Chief Mat Honan. Now the company will be taken to task for it.

Late Friday, the company contacted those on the service who "may have used LinkedIn's Add Connections feature between September 17, 2011, and October 31, 2014," to notify them that a class-action lawsuit had been filed against the company.

Essentially, LinkedIn's "Add Connections" feature was a quick way to connect with the people in a contact list — a one-click method to notify everyone that you had joined the service. However, LinkedIn used access to users' contact lists to send two "reminder" emails, which a court found had been sent without the users' consent. Those additional emails are the focus of the lawsuit, and why LinkedIn will now pay out.

LinkedIn acknowledged no wrongdoing but opted to settle the lawsuit. It will pay $13 million into a fund for payments to plaintiffs.