[Webteam] WinRAR Cooporation

[Michael van der Gulik]

WinRAR-Marketing wrote:

>Dear Squeak Team,
>
>I am contacting you from win.rar GmbH, the official publisher of
>WinRAR, with a business proposal that could be in your interest.
>While viewing  your web-site at www.squeak.org, I noticed that you offer
>your downloads mainly in .zip and .exe formats. We would like to propose
>you to consider adding the .rar format to your current download options.
>Since RAR files can usually compress content up to 30 percent better
>than ZIP, this would save downloading time for the people who download
>files from your website. 
>
>WinRAR is the most complete file compression tool available 
>on the market. It supports all RAR and ZIP archives, as well as most other
>popular archive formats, e.g. CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO,
>BZIP2, Z and 7-Zip. The RAR archiver is also available for Linux,
>MacOS X, DOS, OS/2 and  FreeBSD. Moreover, WinRAR is constantly being
>developed and all future updates are for free. Please check out
>our official website at www.win-rar.com for more detailed information
>about WinRAR. 
>
>To begin our cooperation, we would like to offer you a free license of
>WinRAR so that you can have a chance to test our product firsthand. If
>you are happy with WinRAR and feel that it is a product that Squeak Team
>would be interested in using, then we would like to discuss ways in which
>we can offer WinRAR to you.
>
>We hope that you will consider our business proposal. Should you have any
>questions, please feel free to contact me at your earliest convenience.
>You can reach me personally via e-mail or call me at +49-421-639390.
>  
>
Sure, we'll just pay you a lot of money for software that doesn't 
fulfill our packaging requirements any better than freely available 
software.

Looks like an automatic mail-out. Does Germany have spam laws against this?

Michael.