Re: [Catalog-sig] The Softpedia spam

2010-05-07 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On May 6, 2010, at 9:28 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: On 5/6/2010 8:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 7 May 2010 12:34:24 am 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

Re: [Catalog-sig] The Softpedia spam

2010-05-07 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: [..] I don't know that we should be responsible for trying to prevent every bad use of PyPI. I'm not even convinced that the Softpedia emails are spam in any legal or ethical sense. It's not a mass broadcast of email: each

Re: [Catalog-sig] The Softpedia spam

2010-05-07 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I think most FOSS authors are aware that putting their email in a package is effectively putting it in the clear on the internet. I think we have come beyond the days of noah (at) coderanger [dot] net and all those silly tricks that were popular not too long ago. If an author is excessively

Re: [Catalog-sig] The Softpedia spam

2010-05-07 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Noah Kantrowitz n...@coderanger.net wrote: [..] I think most FOSS authors are aware that putting their email in a package is effectively putting it in the clear on the internet. I think we have come beyond the days of noah (at) coderanger [dot] net and all

Re: [Catalog-sig] The Softpedia spam

2010-05-07 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Noah Kantrowitz wrote: I think most FOSS authors are aware that putting their email in a package is effectively putting it in the clear on the internet. I think we have come beyond the days of noah (at) coderanger [dot] net and all those silly tricks that were popular not too long ago. If

Re: [Catalog-sig] The Softpedia spam

2010-05-07 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On May 7, 2010, at 12:47 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Noah Kantrowitz wrote: I think most FOSS authors are aware that putting their email in a package is effectively putting it in the clear on the internet. I think we have come beyond the days of noah (at) coderanger [dot] net and all those

Re: [Catalog-sig] The Softpedia spam

2010-05-07 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Noah Kantrowitz wrote: On May 7, 2010, at 12:47 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Noah Kantrowitz wrote: I think most FOSS authors are aware that putting their email in a package is effectively putting it in the clear on the internet. I think we have come beyond the days of noah (at) coderanger

Re: [Catalog-sig] The Softpedia spam

2010-05-07 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On May 7, 2010, at 12:57 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Noah Kantrowitz wrote: On May 7, 2010, at 12:47 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Noah Kantrowitz wrote: I think most FOSS authors are aware that putting their email in a package is effectively putting it in the clear on the internet. I think we

Re: [Catalog-sig] The Softpedia spam

2010-05-07 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Noah Kantrowitz wrote: On May 7, 2010, at 12:57 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Noah Kantrowitz wrote: On May 7, 2010, at 12:47 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Noah Kantrowitz wrote: I think most FOSS authors are aware that putting their email in a package is effectively putting it in the clear on