Thomas, On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
You think nothing of routinely filling up all of the list subscribers' inboxes with your opinions, as the top poster on Foundation-l.* But you are complaining here about one email, sent specifically to active and thus presumably interested members of Wikimedia projects reminding them about a single, important election? I find complaints about this being "spam" -- as if you can't handle one extra email about Wikimedia, when you clearly manage to get through hundreds of much less important missives on the mailing lists on a regular basis -- pretty mindblowingly hypocritical. On a general note, I for one greatly appreciate the Election Committee's efforts to get wide community participation in the Board elections**, even if the mailing could have gone more smoothly. On an even more general note, the constructive part of this conversation -- i.e. planning for the next election, and pointing out things to do next time -- is great. Where's the best place for posting "next-time" suggestions from this thread? Elections talk?*** -- phoebe * http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-February/050149.html ** Despite the election's importance, turnout is so far pretty pathetic, esp. from smaller wikis. *** http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Board_elections -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> gmail.com * _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
