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, <pbeaude...@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-boun...@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. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
