[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Referendum 2011 mailout — issues

[Lodewijk]

Maybe we could catch this discussion on wiki - it is an ever returning
issue, and the lessons could be valuable for other campaigns too.

Lodewijk

2011/8/20 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>

> (It seems that mail server is not functioning properly. I've got
> "local delivery failed". Trying again or tomorrow.)
>
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 04:14, Andrew Garrett <agarrett at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> While it is not a big deal for me to get six emails (including one in
> >> Polish) instead of once, I want to say that I already added pattern
> >> for my bot accounts at the Wikimedia nomail list and it existed at
> >> Friday morning there, at least [1].
> >
> > Sorry, that list doesn't accept regular expressions. It's a straight
> > list of account names, which, until yesterday, had to go through about
> > twenty minutes of preprocessing before it was useful.
>
> I supposed that's the problem. Anyway, may you do something like:
> * Check for accounts with the same email address.
> * If some of the accounts have "bot" in the name (something like
> "bot($|\W)"), remove them.
> * If none of the accounts have it, don't touch.
> * If all of the accounts have it, don't touch.
>
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