Infuriating GitHub users that mass-spam GitHub email addresses to promote their repo. How do I report this behavior to GitHub? I guess I could also report them for CANN Spam violations.

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[–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

I do a folder catch on anything, it basically is a no reply, but still irritating and would like it to be reportable.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    but that's how git works... if you have public commits anyone can get that email, it's not github leaking it, it's you

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    I never said GitHub was leaking me? I said someone who has a GitHub repo is scraping GitHub emails and spamming. Seems like the kind of ToS violation GitHub would want to know about.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    I don't think it violates ToS, it's public data. One can even search for emails directly like this and get millions of matches

    https://github.com/search?q=%2F.*%40gmail.com%2F&type=commits

    it's a shitty thing to do, and I wouldn't want my name or company associated to it, but I don't think it violates ToS

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