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 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.
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 email gets sent to *one*
recipient. Re-distributing the software on PyPI is legal under the
terms of the licences (possibly with a few exceptions). I think you
would fail to convince a judge that, legally, Softpedia is spamming or
engaged in any unreasonable action. You certainly fail to convince me.
I am not completely convinced either. It appears to be a legitimate site
that people use to access FOSS software, with relatively subdued ads
(except for the double-underscore popup boxes). I do notice that
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Distutils2/1.0a1
shows 0 downloads at the moment whereas
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Libraries/Distutils2-56577.shtml
shows 14. The python3.1.2 page shows nearly 10000. That much, if
truthful, is good.
If one uploads often, I see how the 'curtesy' letter could be annoying.
Terry Jan Reedy
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