[Foundation-l] spamming of the english wikipedia users detected

[Sebastian Moleski]

On 7/3/07, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I disagree.
>
> The email-user function is opt-in, explicitly and clearly so. The
> subject of the emails is clearly related to both the Wikimedia
> foundation, and the project they are being emailed on. The fact that
> it is on a larger scale does not have anything to do with the fact
> that it is a related, important message, that is clearly about the
> project.


The feature is indeed opt-in. Its there so one can contact an individual
user for situations where the talk page isn't sufficient. It is not intended
for mass messaging of any sort. Please consider the implications if this
weren't the case.

Sebastian