Re: Weird re-subscription email from sourceforge

Ralf Schlatterbeck <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bug-tracking.roundup.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 10:47:57AM -0500, Zachary Ware wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 8:54 AM, R. David Murray <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> > When I went to the URL it had checkboxes
> > checked for two of sourceforge mailing lists (but not roundup-dev),
> > and two checkboxes unchecked for advertising from sourceforge.  Then it
> > had a last checkbox that said that I agreed to receive email from
> > sourceforge.net.  That sounds like an agreement for them to spam me,
> > whether it is one or not, but I can't submit the form to confirm my
> > subscription without checking that box.
> >
> > The original message said my subscription would be deleted on June 29th
> > if I didn't confirm, so I'll be off this list after June 29th.
> 
> I got the same email, but hadn't done anything with it yet.  After
> reading this, I agree; I will be taking no action and thus effectively
> unsubscribing.

I also got that mail but re-confirmed my subscription. There are so many
emails senders out there who do send spam without asking for permission.
So if SF starts spamming on me they'll go the same route as all the
others I filter out. And I think the two separate checkboxes for
advertising from SF do just that, so I don't think I'll get spam from
them. My guess is that this is initiated by some legal department inside
SF and that we won't have to reconfirm the subscription again. But I may
be wrong of course.

But hosting the mailinglist on python.org infrastructure would be nice.
Does someone have time to do this move? This would require that we can
migrate all the current subscribers.
And I think we would have to send out another announcement to the
subscribers after that move...

Ralf
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