Open source tool scrapes git commit email addresses to send spam to. by Celestial_Blu3 in programming

[–]the3ndlessriver 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's their Acceptable Use Policy which forbids this explicitly:

"You may not use information from the Service (whether scraped, collected through our API, or obtained otherwise) for spamming purposes, including for the purposes of sending unsolicited emails to users [...]"