I'm the Didier Lopes from the e-mail.
Sorry for this. This was not intentional The goal was to let all you know about the rebrand of the project, ONLY.
We would have removed every single one of you from the newsletter.
See this thread: https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/issues/1625
That is not the defense you think it is, given that is also a violation of anti-spam and privacy laws in many jurisdictions, and of GitHub's ToS. One unsolicited e-mail is still unsolicited e-mail. What you intended to do was also wrong.
And believe me, if we had known how people would have reacted - even with the one single e-mail about us changing completely the name of org and repo - we would have not done it.
It's midnight here and am still apologising to everyone for this. It's frustrating, but it's the only thing we can do now.
I'm not trying to pile on or push negativity to you and the project; if this is what you intended to do (and I don't have too much reason to doubt) then it's a different flavor of spam than recruiters/blogspam contacting us or signing us up for stuff without our consent.
No mystery there; “stargazing” is one the public [1] social networking features that GitHub provides, and the email address that you write to your Git commits [2] becomes public when you share those commits on the internet.
[1]: https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/stargazers
[2]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-First-Time-Gi...