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You can get any email for a developer from their commits in the json api...companies like Entelo & TalentBin have discovered this a long time ago and appear to

You can get any email for a developer from their commits in the json api...companies like Entelo & TalentBin have discovered this a long time ago and appear to be reselling them to recruiters for about $500 a month. If you have seen an uptick in recruiter spam lately, now you know why. What is interesting is I believe its illegal (can-spam) to email someone if you harvested their email programmatically...but seems to be a clever hack around the law for a company to sell off a harvested emails to be emailed by someone else.

eli 13y ago
> I believe its illegal (can-spam) to email someone if you harvested their email programmatically Nope. You can email pretty much anyone in America, regardless of how you acquired the address (and provided you meet various other requirements about headers and content). The biggest criticism against CAN-SPAM is that it could be viewed as a license for every business to spam the planet exactly once (after that you have to start worrying about opt-outs). Edit: Oops, now I'm not so sure... see below.
- dangrossman 13y ago
  The CAN-SPAM Act has specific prohibitions (and extra harsh sentencing guidelines) for spamming harvested (or "dictionary attack") e-mails. Even if you meet all the other requirements to legally send unsolicited commercial e-mail, harvesting the addresses makes it illegal. https://www.projecthoneypot.org/law_of_harvesting.php https://www.projecthoneypot.org/law_of_harvesting.php http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0723041/canspam.pdf http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0723041/canspam.pdf
- jamesaguilar 13y ago
  Not CA residents (assuming you do business in CA). http://www.tomwbell.com/NetLaw/Ch04/CalSpamLaw.html http://www.tomwbell.com/NetLaw/Ch04/CalSpamLaw.html
ceejayoz 13y ago
> If you have seen an uptick in recruiter spam lately, now you know why. Thank you, I was wondering how so many managed to find my e-mail.
xwintermute 13y ago
of all spam - I like job offers (however misguided) the most.
welder 13y ago
$500... http://hacktalent.com http://hacktalent.com sells them for $9

eli 13y ago

> I believe its illegal (can-spam) to email someone if you harvested their email programmatically Nope. You can email pretty much anyone in America, regardless of how you acquired the address (and provided you meet various other requirements about headers and content). The biggest criticism against CAN-SPAM is that it could be viewed as a license for every business to spam the planet exactly once (after that you have to start worrying about opt-outs). Edit: Oops, now I'm not so sure... see below.

dangrossman 13y ago
The CAN-SPAM Act has specific prohibitions (and extra harsh sentencing guidelines) for spamming harvested (or "dictionary attack") e-mails. Even if you meet all the other requirements to legally send unsolicited commercial e-mail, harvesting the addresses makes it illegal. https://www.projecthoneypot.org/law_of_harvesting.php https://www.projecthoneypot.org/law_of_harvesting.php http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0723041/canspam.pdf http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0723041/canspam.pdf
jamesaguilar 13y ago
Not CA residents (assuming you do business in CA). http://www.tomwbell.com/NetLaw/Ch04/CalSpamLaw.html http://www.tomwbell.com/NetLaw/Ch04/CalSpamLaw.html

ceejayoz 13y ago

> If you have seen an uptick in recruiter spam lately, now you know why. Thank you, I was wondering how so many managed to find my e-mail.

xwintermute 13y ago

of all spam - I like job offers (however misguided) the most.

welder 13y ago

$500... http://hacktalent.com http://hacktalent.com sells them for $9