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Re:Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam e... by david_allison on Thursday February 26, 2026 @05:57PM (#47173316)
To confirm: is this email spammers, or spam on GitHub?

I've had decent success with on-GitHub action (I'd wager ~80% action taken), but the effort to report email spammers doesn't seem worthwhile.

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Re:Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam e... by gettingoverit on Monday March 09, 2026 @10:41AM (#47309770)
I did report email spam to GH, and both got reply for them and seen their page go 404.

It was years ago though. Since I've enabled "hide my email" setting, and set that GH-generated email to my git config, "try my project" spam ceased to be an issue.

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