Ugh, I’m getting spam from GitHub users
August 5, 2011 8:23 am UncategorizedSo some creeps called “pagodabox” – who built a “scalable php platform” as if PHP wasn’t already that – just scanned my GitHub account, and used the email to send me spam to see if I wanted to buy their product.
If they’re still on GitHub tomorrow, then GitHub will be sending the message far and wide that its users are permitted to break the law and basic common sense.
The reaction to this will make or break my opinion of GitHub.
In the meantime, please do not do business with PagodaBox. Not only is their offering pointless and silly, but they’re spammers when it suits them, and you know what that means they’ll do when their interests and yours collide.
August 5th, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Looks something like what Zed Shaw complained here: http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1306816425.html
IIRC, they added a feature to ignore certain users.
August 5th, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Yeah, except that’s to deal with specific well-known abusers. This was spam from some company I’d never heard of. I can’t use single-case ignore to prevent unknown spam unless I manually ignore every possible email address, which is likely to be expensive for GitHub in terms of disk space.
GitHub has yet to respond.