[Foundation-l] Board election spamming

[Geoffrey Plourde]

Although I had already voted, I was not bothered by one tiny email reminding me that I was eligible to vote. Thanks guys, hopefully this will get people to the polls. 




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From: Casey Brown <lists at caseybrown.org>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Friday, August 7, 2009 9:57:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Board election spamming

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

"telling me I am eligible" and "untargetted mass e-mails" don't really
make sense together, do they?  Also, although you're only getting one
e-mail once per year (will be every two years), you're free to opt-out
(there are instructions in the e-mail you received).

/me wonders why you wouldn't just hit reply to the e-mail and send
this message to people who actually can do something about it, rather
than foundation-l.

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Meno 25<meno25wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> and also please don't send e-mails to bot accounts.
>

Yes, that's a good point.  It seems this was an error this time around
and they'll probably remember to leave those ones out next time.
(Hopefully we'll have people writing up a "how-to" page for future
years.)

--
Casey Brown (who is not an election committee member, hence the third person)
Cbrown1023

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