Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

Re:Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the nex... by filmgirlcw on Sunday March 05, 2023 @07:09AM (#35028891)

No one signed up to their newsletter. They scraped the emails of everyone who starred the repo and imported it into MailChimp and subscribed us all to a newsletter. That’s spam.

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Re:Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the nex... by willdr on Sunday March 05, 2023 @07:18AM (#35028959)

This is your brain on Finance, unfortunately.

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Re:Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the nex... by conorcleary on Sunday March 05, 2023 @08:16AM (#35029343)

Just like you receive marketing copy in your mailbox.

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Re:Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the nex... by jeroenhd on Sunday March 05, 2023 @09:32AM (#35029876)

Merriam-Webster defines spam as: "unsolicited usually commercial messages (such as emails, text messages, or Internet postings) sent to a large number of recipients or posted in a large number of places".

The emails were unsollicited and sent to a large number of recipients. It's fits the dictionary definition of spam, despite not containing a direct advertisement.

Cambridge merely defines spam as: "unwanted email, usually advertisements", which this also fits perfectly, as nobody who stars a Github repo sees that as confirmation of wanting join a mailing list.

Furthermore, if this were marketing (it's an invitation into the community more than anything else) this email may actually violate the CAN-SPAM act. IANAL but I don't think it applies here as the email doesn't even offer anything, it's just begging for feedback.

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