[Foundation-l] Board election spamming

[Marc Riddell]

> Thomas,
> 
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:40 PM, 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.

on 8/9/09 5:15 PM, phoebe ayers at phoebe.wiki at gmail.com wrote:

> 
> You think nothing of routinely filling up all of the list subscribers'
> inboxes with your opinions, as the top poster on Foundation-l.* But
> you are complaining here about one email, sent specifically to active
> and thus presumably interested members of Wikimedia projects reminding
> them about a single, important election? I find complaints about this
> being "spam" -- as if you can't handle one extra email about
> Wikimedia, when you clearly manage to get through hundreds of much
> less important missives on the mailing lists on a regular basis --
> pretty mindblowingly hypocritical.
> 
Yes!! Thank you Phoebe. This comment was long overdue!

Marc