I have now lost the restraint I desperately tried to maintain and must now contribute to this thread.
I am
genetically anti-spam. So much so that several of my email addresses have appeared on supposedly secret Do-Not-Spam lists shared by spammers in order to avoid retribution from motivated individuals. This may or may not have been a result of getting several hundred spam accounts and open relays closed in a couple of years
I was initially annoyed by the J River missive. But, given that I have received no other missives from J River in a period of ~1 year, I really didn't have a problem with this recent one, especially given that it was a major version update and not pure tripe.
It would be nice if there were some integration with the forum, possibly in the form of a YABB mod, to let users define their level of announcement involvement. The YABB mods site appears to be down ATM, so I don't know if one is already built.
Whatever - as long as I don't feel that I am getting needlessly sporged by J River, ie. more than one message every 3 months, then it's NBD to me. May God Almighty help you if I receive more than that
All of the above is IMO, YMMV.