[Foundation-l] Election mailings

[effe iets anders]

Actually, that would just mean that you make it some easier to
subscribe to a mailinglist of announcements, which is indeed something
else. I am not opposed to that, but it should however be possible to
unsubscribe from that without removing your emailaddress.

@Maxwell: I think you really don't get what I am trying to tell, as
you keep speaking about which community "needs" it. In my opinion spam
is not an allowed mean to notify people, and I think you made a big
mistake when you started with it. Trying to artificially restore a
balance is imho quite wrong, as it implies that there should be a
certain balance in the votes. And as we are all biased on this, as we
are part of one side of that balance, I think it is very weird that
one of us decides whether the balance is disturbed, especially when
the balance is purely a matter of interpretation.

I read somewhere quickly that you are research officer of the
Wikimedia Foundation, and that you might have done this with that hat.
I sincerely hope that that rumour is false, although it would plee you
free (as i said, i think two bodies could decide to this imho, the
foundation or the community, and as officer you represent the
foundation), it would certainly damage my view of the wikimedia
foundation. But I guess this has been spoken about in the large
thread, although I couldn't find that so fast.

Regards, Lodewijk

2007/7/5, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) <pathoschild at gmail.com>:
> On 7/5/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Indeed, what might seem a good idea is to set up an
> > additional tickbox for opting in or out of Major Notifications
> > (foundation elections, perhaps local project arbcom elections, perhaps
> > major fund drive notificiations or downtime warnings - but nothing
> > less important), default it to being enabled, and send out a "Hi, we
> > have this new notification system, in accordance with what you said
> > when you registered your email - here's how to opt out" mail...
> >
>
> Hello,
>
> I think that solution would be acceptable. It's rather similar to what
> I proposed, after all, but opt-out rather than opt-in. :)
>
> Yours cordially,
> Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)
>
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