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Re:Tell HN: OpenBB scraping GitHub emails for marketing spam by mwt on Sunday April 03, 2022 @06:56PM (#30901579)
I think people are probably curious how you got a list of emails of people who have starred your repo(s) on GitHub? Personally I don't think "please add my email to a database" as being included in starring a repo. Maybe there's something in the TOS or a community understanding I'm not aware of.

I'm not trying to pile on or push negativity to you and the project; if this is what you intended to do (and I don't have too much reason to doubt) then it's a different flavor of spam than recruiters/blogspam contacting us or signing us up for stuff without our consent.

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Re:Tell HN: OpenBB scraping GitHub emails for marketing spam by aendruk on Monday April 04, 2022 @11:08AM (#30907529)
> curious how you got a list of emails of people who have starred your repo

No mystery there; “stargazing” is one the public [1] social networking features that GitHub provides, and the email address that you write to your Git commits [2] becomes public when you share those commits on the internet.

[1]: https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/stargazers

[2]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-First-Time-Gi...

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