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

Dan Rosenthal swatjester at gmail.com
Tue Jul 3 15:53:31 UTC 2007


This is a situation where the talk pages are not sufficient. When  
it's the future of the project in question, I feel that this is a  
justified undertaking.

-Dan
On Jul 3, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Sebastian Moleski wrote:

> 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
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