I get spam all the time from companies and people who put their name on it. That doesn’t mean it’s not spam. Unsolicited emails are spam, no matter how informative.
You are certainly free to do as you like, but, to me, sending spam emails is a bad approach. I’ve only commented because some of the activities you recommended will get users banned at WordPress.org.
I would definitely mark it as spam if I received an email like this. It would be the same if Apple sent me an email because Windows sucks… .right into the spam bin it goes.
I suggested that approach, and I didn’t even implemented it because things aren’t done that way.
As a member of this community I have no right to say do this, and you must do that, it’s all about this is what we should do, and shouldn’t do, then the board or the community leaders decides on what is best for the community.
All I was really saying is to target people that is searching for an alternative (If I run an agency, I am gonna be happy their is an alternative that doesn’t have Gutenberg included).
Another point to note - People aren’t switching because Gutenberg breaks their website (It’s not that hard to make things compatible), they are switching because WordPress made it mandatory without listening to the community.
I switched because I hate stress, I just want to write, and I hate enforcement.
I’ve mentioned CP on .org forums, actually. That post and my review are still there. Maybe because it wasn’t noticed among all other text. Maybe it passed for some other reason. Don’t know.
Intentional mass mentioinig in public that way is a controversial strategy. This will look like direct attack (and actually it will be a direct attack). This is too straight to my mind.
This is not true. I have mentioned ClassicPress a few times in replies to forum topics. One of the early ones remained. One of the later ones was deleted. My account is not banned.
The moderation is for spam first and only a little about content. If you @mention someone, an email is sent and that is considered spam. If you are rude or abusive or self-promoting, that is not allowed and is removed, with a note to the author. If it is not about WordPress support, it is removed.
So you can see that the WP forums are not a place to promote CP.
Actually, it is. Consider the meaning of and/or.
Not every post is read either, although they try, and Akismet is used.
Yes this happens when the emails that were sent are not personal.
I’ve sent personal emails. The email that I’ve sent to the guy that replied to me had the tittle “About your review on WP Gutenberg editor on wordpress forum” and I addressed him also with his name that was given on the contact information of his website. ( which is IMO a more polite way to address people) I read his review, I couldn’t reply to him because his review’s discussion was locked and I contacted him at his email personally.
Spam emails are those that are pushing information without being addressing them personally.
I wouldn’t consider as spam an email from an unknown person who would like to contact me personally to inform me on something that I was asking in a public discussion. This is not spamming . Is getting in contact with other people.
Especially by the time that these people have already publish their contact information and their real names to encourage other people to do so. 
In any case sending a few emails to people who are asking for alternatives or posting a few links and mention CP on communities that we are regularly visiting or replying to comments wouldn’t harm anyone.
The more information is out there for CP the easier will be for people to find it and try it.
I would recomment to start posting links and reply on social media and youtube comments.
I did that earlier. I found a guy who was asking for a WP alternative on youtube comments and I replied to him that I switched to Classic Press.
No links not other information. If he is still interested he will check it out. Simple as that.
Quite a few of us do this religiously. You should stop by and like/follow. I post TONS of ClassicPress content.
Exactly, just because some ain’t saying doesn’t mean they don’t do.
By the way, we once had a similar discussion here. And I still think we should try monitoring Stackoverflow.
There was just 1 topic with “ClassicPress” key phrase, but there are tons of WP-related content. So I think the most simple and ethic thing that we can do right now (without any risks, wars or additional improvements) is to write some nice answers there, mentioning CP in a context.
Related keyphrases are “Classic Editor”, “Gutenberg”, but we can also search for our roadmap features and even just answer any Wordpress questions in a style of “Here is the solution. I’ve tested it on ClassicPress, but it will certainly work in WP as well…”. This allows to legally post internal links showing CP from different point of views.
Well, I’d better go and start) For example.
This is what we call - “Think Out-of-The-Box” Your English is totally fine man!
