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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
September 6, 2011 02:15
Subject:
Re: Spam to CPAN Developers? (Fwd: Betonmarkets CTO position)
Message ID:
20110906091527.GB23881@plum.flirble.org
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:23:03AM -0600, Andy Lester wrote:
> 
> On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Jonathan Yu wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone else got a message like this to their CPAN Developer e-mail
> > address? I'm curious if this is the beginning of a really bad trend
> > toward CPAN author spamming :/
> 
> 
> Yes. Maybe, but I doubt it.
> 
> I'm praying that we can chalk it up to some guy in Malaysia sending us  
> all mail, and this doesn't turn into a huge metadiscussion.

It didn't turn into a metadiscussion.

But it does seem that the *only* firm that is* spamming CPAN authors is
Betonmarkets, as they've done it *again*.

Life would be quieter if they kindly ceased trading.

(Because that seems a more reliable way for them to stop, than issuing
an apology then repeating the offence every 18 months)

Nicholas Clark

* or fails to stop agents acting on their behalf.

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