Tell HN: Redpanda is spamming emails taken from GitHub profiles

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Post by jannesan » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 4:02 PM UTC

On my email that is just publicly used on my Github account I have repeatedly received marketing emails from the company behind Redpanda since 2021 without ever consenting to such and without any way to opt out. Replying to the email that I wish to not receive them has not helped. The newest email from this year has a “Not interested” button, so apparently they have learned a bit. Let’s see if it actually works.

I can not imagine this shady tactics get much love from developers, rather they probably turn away people from trying your product, at least for me this is the case.

Re: Tell HN: Redpanda is spamming emails taken from GitHub profiles

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Post by exabrial » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 4:44 PM UTC

Can we block by DKIM key or something?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 4:44 PM UTC

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Post by sangupta » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 5:21 PM UTC

I have rules capturing words like "redpanda" to filter into a folder, which I monthly give a glance and delete all. This has been for many such spam where the "do not send" link/button never works.

Re: Tell HN: Redpanda is spamming emails taken from GitHub profiles

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Post by agallego » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 5:51 PM UTC

Hey jannesan this is untrue. We pay for ZoomInfo which gives us emails on search engines results. No one is manually filtering on your GitHub. But it should have a link to unsubscribe. Let me know if it doesn’t work and happy to remove. We use a mailing list provider which manages the unsub for us.

Re: Tell HN: Redpanda is spamming emails taken from GitHub profiles

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Post by KomoD » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 6:21 PM UTC

They're not the only ones either! Turing.com does it too, and they keep switching domains to avoid blacklists. They've even spammed over SMS!

Re: Tell HN: Redpanda is spamming emails taken from GitHub profiles

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Post by KomoD » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 6:24 PM UTC

agallego wrote: post #5

Hey jannesan this is untrue. We pay for ZoomInfo which gives us emails on search engines results. No one is manually filtering on your GitHub. But it should have a link to unsubscribe. Let me know if it doesn’t work and happy to remove. We use a mailing list provider which manages the unsub for us.

"But it should have a link to unsubscribe"

How about don't send it in the first place? Nobody wants your unsolicited marketing emails, certainly not repeatedly for years.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 9:30 PM UTC

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Post by speedgoose » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 9:45 PM UTC

KomoD wrote: post #7

agallego wrote: post #5

Hey jannesan this is untrue. We pay for ZoomInfo which gives us emails on search engines results. No one is manually filtering on your GitHub. But it should have a link to unsubscribe. Let me know if it doesn’t work and happy to remove. We use a mailing list provider which manages the unsub for us.

"But it should have a link to unsubscribe" How about don't send it in the first place? Nobody wants your unsolicited marketing emails, certainly not repeatedly for years.

They do that because it works.

Re: Tell HN: Redpanda is spamming emails taken from GitHub profiles

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Post by joshxyz » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 10:21 PM UTC

agallego wrote: post #5

Hey jannesan this is untrue. We pay for ZoomInfo which gives us emails on search engines results. No one is manually filtering on your GitHub. But it should have a link to unsubscribe. Let me know if it doesn’t work and happy to remove. We use a mailing list provider which manages the unsub for us.

they didnt subscribe in the first place asshole.