Tarek Ziadé wrote: > Hello, > > The Softpedia website sends an email to everyone that register or > uploads something at PyPI. This is clearly a spam and their website > don't care about our projects. > > I am not sure if they use the PubSubHubbub thing, but I was wondering > how we could prevent these unsolicited mails. > > If they use PubSubHubbub, maybe we could set up a black list of > subscribers people can manage at their level, > if they reconstruct the emails by reading the RSS feed, maybe we > should not publish this info (even with the @ transformed into " at > ").
Unfortunately, that's what you get when providing APIs to extract all the data from PyPI. Not even the terms on the PyPI service can be used to prevent that (something I'll try to change now that I'm on the PSF board again). We should really disallow redistribution of the PyPI meta data and uploads without prior written consent from the PSF. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, May 06 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig