Hi,
Maybe we shouldn't e-mail every user every time there is a vote.
There has never been a run that didn't cause any problems and like Andrew was saying elsewhere they know the system doesn't check for global blocks and multible blocks.
So there will be a lot of false positives. And a lot of people will get spam because they did create a account and did some edits... People that think Wikimedia is sending spam will leave instead of vote.
There is already a global site notice. This e-mails was't needed...
2011/8/19, Andrew Garrett agarrett@wikimedia.org:
Hi all,
I've just started sending out over 750,000 emails to folks who are eligible to vote in our Wikimedia Referendum. I've learned from past mailouts in trying to exclude more bots, multiple accounts and folks who've already voted. However, if you receive an email which doesn't apply to you (for example, if you're not eligible to vote, or you've requested to be excluded from such mailouts), or if there's a problem with the email that you receive (for example, it's in the wrong language), I've set up a page [1] where you can report it. Remember that you can always opt out from all future mailings [2].
I'm hoping that having a central page for this information will help in investigating the issues associated with errant mail, and allow future mail to be better targetted.
Thanks a lot for your help,
—Andrew
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum/Email/False_positives [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_nomail_list
-- Andrew Garrett Wikimedia Foundation agarrett@wikimedia.org
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