Yes, unsolicited to you.. then unsolicited by you, to the Monestary. Even if it was unsolicited email from Tim O'Reilly, unsolicited email is Spam, and this is the spread of that Spam.

will be all the wiser for wealth of information you have shared.

Sorry if I am seeming confrontational, their emails have been quite the sore topic for some of us as of late. I hope we all learn something :-)

which to me lent credence to them as a company.

Well, Clinton Pierce wrote Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours for Sams, which happens to be a very good book, written by a very cluefull person.. but.. Sams still sucks as a whole :)

Cheers,
KM