[Foundation-l] Board election spamming

Jon Harald Søby jhsoby at gmail.com
Sat Aug 8 15:11:47 UTC 2009


2009/8/8 John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com>

> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:09 PM, private musings<thepmaccount at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > No silly - it's a mistake! (don't be so grumpy..... - or be aware that
> this
> > could come across as grumpy at least)
> >
> > I recall the grumbles when Greg sent something out last year or the year
> > before, and feel the same about this as that - the folk sending the email
> > are using an imperfect system, but overall it's worth it - I'm hope that
> > those feeling personally affronted by such an approach can take solace in
> > something or other, and just generally relax a notch or two.... :-)
>
> Oh, I am not affronted.
>
> I am thrilled that the election committee decided that computer
> engineers should be rewarded for their ingenuity by allowing their
> fine opinion to be counted twice.
>
> This motivates me to write more bots for next year.
>
> p.s. can the election committee ensure that votes from bot accounts
> are not counted??
>
> p.p.s. if I can have another free vote, I will gladly write a bot to
> help the election committee to discount bot votes...
>
> --
> John Vandenberg
>
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The list of users who have voted is available at
https://wikimedia.spi-inc.org/index.php/Special:SecurePoll/list/17 , and I
know the committee will be more than happy for any help received. ;-)

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Jon Harald Søby
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