Is it ethical or legal for companies to scrape GitHub stars for spam purposes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27855152
by elbrian • 5 years ago
3 2 5 years ago

Just got an email from jack.flynn@gatsbyjs.com with some spam and he mentioned that he got my information from the stargazers list of the Gatsby repo.

Is this something I should bother reporting to GitHub? I will likely never star another repo again because it's been proven to be a good source of spam.

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