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It's disrespectful because I never consented to giving their company my email, nor have I consented to their services. This type of reasoning is why a vast majority of people never answer their phone, because there is a very large chance it'll be a phone call from a spammer/scammer.

I have no issues when I purposely choose to work with a recruiter, but invading aspects of my life when they never got permission to IS disrespectful.

>>azemet+(OP)
If you publicly listed your email on open source projects then you agreed to be contacted at that address regarding your work. That's the only inconsistency I see here. I hate recruiter spam just as much as you, but you can't both list an email publicly and also require consent to use said email. That's not how a phone book works.

>>dcow+0l
Man I’m not disagreeing. I just wish there was a term for tragedy of the digital commons. You see similar things from other fun aspects of the web that disappeared, like guests book or comments on blogs.