[Foundation-l] for the future...

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 7/3/07, Robert Horning <robert_horning at netzero.net> wrote:
[snip]
> That is a small handful of objections by those who bothered to not
> simply hit the delete button when they saw the message.  And the small
> handful of those who also were glad to have received the message, no doubt.

Well the positive emails have far far outnumbered the negative ones +
the threads here. (plus half of my private detractors have commented
on this thread ;) )

Perhaps I'm just not used to sending out large volumes off email and
what I recieved is statistically insignificant.. but the positive
feedback I had on this is far larger than the feedback that I've had
on anything related to Wikimedia ever.

It's done a lot to boost my confidence in the project and the people
involved. .. I think I now see the lists with newly skeptical eyes. It
really is true that naysayers are a minority in most of our
matters,... it's just that the majority is silent. I knew this before,
but I believe it now.

> Mind you with all this, I'm not really complaining about this particular
> message that was sent out, because I did not receive the spam in spite
> of the fact that I am eligible to vote using my en.wikipedia account and
> did not vote that way.  Perhaps the filters mentioned earlier caught my
> name and culled it out as I did vote using another project.

Yes.. Robert Horning at enwikibooks    15:29, 28 June 2007

You voted via wikibooks. Geesh, I just wasted 10 minutes trying to
figure out you could have possibly been missed.  I should have
finished reading your message before I started researching!

I filtered out people who voted no matter where they voted from... so
long as they have the same account. This also means I would have
skipped people who share a name with a different person who voted.
Considering the frequency of those two cases, I hope no one would
consider that a bad decision. ;)