● 09.24.20

●● Red Hat is Spamming People in Order to Promote Its Sites and Its Products, Subscribing People to Mass-Marketing Lists Without the Recipients’ Consent

Posted in IBM, Mail, Marketing, Red Hat at 6:30 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

In the name of “engagement” (newspeak like the Linux Foundation‘s E-mail “blasts”, in their own words!), Red Hat turns into a spammer, apparently Windows-powered too

Summary: “Engagements” from Red Hat; have the IBM-led marketing people gone overboard, subscribing lots of people to marketing spam without bothering to ask for consent?

SO-CALLED ‘engagements’ have made Red Hat a bit of a marketing/spam firm, looking to promote its self-promotional articles by sending unsolicited mail spam to a lot of people (who knows how many) starting earlier this week.

“Come on, Red Hat. You can do better than this!”I don’t have any real grudge/issue with Red Hat (their CEO did an interview with us); I’ve often linked to OpenSource.com (many thousands of times since the site’s birth more than a decade ago), but I have a serious grudge when it comes to spam, or mass-mailing people without any solicitation or consent. IBM has routinely done those sorts of things to us, even as recently as last month.

as recently as last month

Days ago we received this:

How quaint. We never subscribed to this.

Never ever gave that E-mail address to anybody at Red Hat either, so they must have looked that up somehow. What. On. Earth…

Then again this morning:

Where does this come from and how does one unsubscribe (having never subscribed in the first place)?

OK, unsubscribed now. From something never subscribed/asked for in the first place! Time will tell if that took effect; maybe it’s as effective as attempting to remove systemd.

What’s behind this aggressive marketing operation?

Is that you, Windows? Hiding behind another layer (security by secrecy/obscurity)?

Come on, Red Hat. You can do better than this! Stop trying to become what you used to be against. █

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