Infuriating GitHub users that mass-spam GitHub email addresses to promote their repo. How do I report this behavior to GitHub? I guess I could also report them for CANN Spam violations.

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    if this is an address publicly visible from commits, anyone can do it

    set a noreply address for future commits

    git config --global user.email "username@users.noreply.github.com"

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      It has an unsubscribe link at the bottom and zero GitHub branding. This is just some enterprising AI douche scraping emails from commit authorship and adding them to a mailing list.

  • Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloud
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    3 hours ago

    Also click the to link to see where it might be from, then the 3 dots top right and click show original. If the from and to are real and the headers look about right then fine, if the headers don’t have GitHub in them it’s pure spam