On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Terry Reedy <[email protected]> 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 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.
A spam is an unsolicited email you receive from someone you don't know, that tries to sell or promote a service or a product to make money. Softpedia qualifies in this definition. > 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. Yes that what happens to me. But well I am just going to drop it, it seems that I am alone thinking this should be prevented, and that Softpedia is a spammer :) _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
