The site seems legit, but that doesn't make spamming legal. To be spam, however, it must be automated. It looks like a site for 'open source' programmers, and Debian clearly qualifies as an 'open source' project (in fact the OSD was based on the DFSG), so it may have been manually sent. I would just ignore it.
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