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

[Tuvic]

That's totally incorrect. The checkbox says "Enable e-mail from other
users", not "Enable bot-generated targetted mailings". It's an abuse
of the e-mail-function according to me: this is not what it's meant
for. I can see this slipping into signpost updates, Rfd-notices, and a
whole lot of other purposes, and it will probably end in users
disabling the e-mail function.


2007/7/4, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com>:
> No, it isn't.
>
> By being associated with Wikipedia, and checking the little box to
> accept "Wikipedia e-mails", these people acknowledged that they were
> OK to receive this targetted mailing.
>
> Mark
>
> On 03/07/07, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It's spam.
> >
> > >