No, it seems like they are calling out repeated abuse by a YC company. From what I can see, it's unlikely these are false accusations as your down-thread reply implies.
If those other companies don't have a prior business relationship with you, then they are also committing abuse. In fact, it has been illegal in the US for almost 20 years [1], even if it is difficult to enforce.
> The CAN-SPAM Act is occasionally referred to by critics as the "You-Can-Spam" Act because the bill fails to prohibit many types of e-mail spam and preempts some state laws that would otherwise have provided victims with practical means of redress. In particular, it does not require e-mailers to get permission before they send marketing messages.
Maybe read the sources you try to use to back up your flawed argument?
> A visible and operable unsubscribe mechanism is present in all emails.
> Consumer opt-out requests are honored within 10 business days.
They didn't include an unsubscribe, and if we take my plain English request to stop sending me emails as an opt-out request, then they also failed to honor my request within 10 days. However, my point isn't to say I have a legal case against Runops for spamming me. Just that their founder is behaving unethically by sending me unsolicited emails (even after I asked him to stop) about his company for no reason other than that I have worked on open source software before. So far, your arguments have been
- Why don't you (and however many thousands of other people he spammed) just block him?
- This is a false accusation, e.i. there's no reason to believe you received these emails
- It's not spam anyway
I have to wonder. Do you scrape developers' emails out of GitHub and send them marketing emails to promote your startup?
