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> This was not intentional The goal was to let all you know about the rebrand of the project, ONLY.

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.

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I understand this now.

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.

Just something that stood out to me from the wording. Get some sleep, not much more immediate damage control you can do I'd say.

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