I already voted when I got my email, and I didn't think it was spam. I
smiled at the fact that Wikimedia is making sure everyone who can vote has
the opportunity.
Steven
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:05 PM, <pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thomas,
I'm sorry you got an email that bothered you. Trust me, we try to make
sure no one is bothered by them. Sometimes people fall through the cracks,
and I'm sorry that was the case here and in a few other cases.
We try - hard - to make sure that everyone who is entitled to vote knows
it. Hours of translator and committee time went into that email. This
morning, folks from the translation team worked hard to make the email as
close as possible to perfect. Werdna created and managed the scripts and
other vols have worked hard to manage the (multi lingual) responses. My
point here is that we take suffrage very seriously and in our effort to make
sure that EVERY qualified voter knew it, we didn't get it perfectly.
If that's the trade off for getting increased turnout in this critical
election, I hope you can understand. I will sleep well tonight, knowing
that we erred on the side of hitting TOO MANY voters, instead of not enough.
For myself only, but quite sure others share my feelings,
Philippe
------Original Message------
From: Thomas Dalton
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To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
ReplyTo: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: [Foundation-l] Board election spamming
Sent: Aug 7, 2009 10:40 PM
I have just received an email telling me I am eligible to vote in the
board elections when I have already voted. Please don't send
untargetted mass emails - they are spam.
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