[Foundation-l] Board election spamming

[Steven Walling]

I already voted when I got my email, and I didn't think it was spam. I
smiled at the fact that Wikimedia is making sure everyone who can vote has
the opportunity.
Steven

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:05 PM, <pbeaudette at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Thomas,
>
> I'm sorry you got an email that bothered you.  Trust me, we try to make
> sure no one is bothered by them.  Sometimes people fall through the cracks,
> and I'm sorry that was the case here and in a few other cases.
>
> We try - hard - to make sure that everyone who is entitled to vote knows
> it.  Hours of translator and committee time went into that email.  This
> morning, folks from the translation team worked hard to make the email as
> close as possible to perfect.  Werdna created and managed the scripts and
> other vols have worked hard to manage the (multi lingual) responses.  My
> point here is that we take suffrage very seriously and in our effort to make
> sure that EVERY qualified voter knew it, we didn't get it perfectly.
>
> If that's the trade off for getting increased turnout in this critical
> election, I hope you can understand.  I will sleep well tonight, knowing
> that we erred on the side of hitting TOO MANY voters, instead of not enough.
>
> For myself only, but quite sure others share my feelings,
> Philippe
>
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: Thomas Dalton
> Sender: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> ReplyTo: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Board election spamming
> Sent: Aug 7, 2009 10:40 PM
>
> 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.
>
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