Hi, Maybe we shouldn't e-mail every user every time there is a vote.
There has never been a run that didn't cause any problems and like Andrew was saying elsewhere they know the system doesn't check for global blocks and multible blocks. So there will be a lot of false positives. And a lot of people will get spam because they did create a account and did some edits... People that think Wikimedia is sending spam will leave instead of vote. There is already a global site notice. This e-mails was't needed... 2011/8/19, Andrew Garrett <agarr...@wikimedia.org>: > Hi all, > > I've just started sending out over 750,000 emails to folks who are > eligible to vote in our Wikimedia Referendum. I've learned from past > mailouts in trying to exclude more bots, multiple accounts and folks > who've already voted. However, if you receive an email which doesn't > apply to you (for example, if you're not eligible to vote, or you've > requested to be excluded from such mailouts), or if there's a problem > with the email that you receive (for example, it's in the wrong > language), I've set up a page [1] where you can report it. Remember > that you can always opt out from all future mailings [2]. > > I'm hoping that having a central page for this information will help > in investigating the issues associated with errant mail, and allow > future mail to be better targetted. > > Thanks a lot for your help, > > —Andrew > > [1] > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum/Email/False_positives > [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_nomail_list > > -- > Andrew Garrett > Wikimedia Foundation > agarr...@wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Verzonden vanaf mijn mobiele apparaat Kind regards, Huib Laurens WickedWay.nl Webhosting the wicked way. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
