Dear Softpedia Team,
[ CC to the Free Software Foundation Europe, as it is about spamming and other maltreatment of free software developers. ]
Softpedia Editorial Team linuxeditor@softpedia.com wrote:
vserver, one of your products, has been added to Softpedia's database of software programs for Linux. It is featured with a description text, screenshots, download links and technical details on this page: http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Libraries/vserver-50913.shtml
I just took a look at softpedia.com, and I got the impression that its information is not well-maintained and was created in a big hurry. [1] [2] As a system administrator and software developer, I don't want to be associated with such an immature piece of work.
So it would be nice if you could remove me and all of my projects from your site.
In addition, please don't send annoying emails to me whenever you discover that I published something. [3]
Sincerely Volker Grabsch
[1] For instance, Softpedia added 7 words of prefix to the project description of my python-tex project. Those 7 words ("tex is a Pytohn library that can") contain 3 typos!
[2] In addition, Softpedia claims that my homepage is http://sourceforge.net/projects/hosh However, this page isn't even about me! It is just a standard page of SourceForge that summarizes _one_ of my projects.
[3] As I never opted in to get those automatically created emails, these are nothing more and nothing less than SPAM.
It seems that Softpedia sends that SPAM to everyone who publishes a project on the Python Package Index. Maybe other free software sites as are affected, too.