[Foundation-l] Board election spamming

[Kwan Ting Chan]

Huib! wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Aren't we working to wrong way, I think it should be better to let 
> people opt-in, because we didn't release our e-mail addresses for this 
> kind of spam. I use different emails for private / mailinglist use and I 
> didn't give permission to use my private email.

Can I just point out the email address concerned was supplied by you to 
Wikimedia Foundation, where your account's preference is set "Enable 
e-mail from other users".

I'm not saying only people where that is set was sent email, and no 
people where that is not set (i.e. email on record only for password 
recovery) were not sent. However, in your particular case, I or anyone 
else for that matter could just as easily send you the email via the 
Commons interface and it would had be no different.

> Its kind of stupid that this email isn't send out when the election 
> started, but is send when a lot of people already voted, and its 
> unneeded now so its spam.

It's unfortunate this year, those that have already voted received the 
email. Obviously it should be noted so it doesn't happens in the future 
(i.e. in 2 years time). But there are should a lot of people who is able 
to vote but haven't voted, and it wouldn't be spam to send them this email.

KTC

-- 
Experience is a good school but the fees are high.
     - Heinrich Heine
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