On Sunday, 29 March 2015 19:39:04 UTC+1, William wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > On 2015-03-29, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> On Thursday, 26 March 2015 19:48:37 UTC, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On 2015-03-26 20:17, William Stein wrote: > >>>> > Hi Sage Developers, > >>>> > > >>>> > We've posted the following message on the http://sagenb.org site: > >>>> > > >>>> > "This Sage notebook server will be shut down April 17, 2015. > >>>> > >>>> I am very worried about the extremely short notice. Many users will > be > >>>> disappointed to lose their work. Why not just keep it running without > >>>> supporting it? > >>> > >>> > >>> is there a list of email addresses of the sagenb users? > >> > >> I don't know. I think most users login via OpenID, and I don't know > >> if (1) that provides their email address, and even if it does, (2) > >> whether we record that information. I didn't have anything to do > >> with the openid integration into sagenb, and I'm not about to dive > >> into the code... > > > > I'd have checked that an email is kept in the user profile. > > At least when I log in to sagenb.org using my Google openid > > it asks my permission to view my email, and then pops up a > > form prefilled with an email, too: > > > > --------------------------------- > > Create your Sage profile > > > > Create a username > > > > Your username must start with a letter and be between 3 and 64 > > characters long. You may only use letters, numbers, underscores, @, and > > dots. > > Enter your email address > > [pre-filled @gmail.com] > > Your email address is required for account confirmation and > > recovery. > > ---------------------------- > > I just cracked open the users.pickle for sagenb, and found that there > are 250443 total users. Of these, only 18688 (or 7.4%) actually have > the email field set -- all others are blank. I guess these might be > exactly the openid accounts. Of these, 15058 are gmail accounts, which > are probably the Google openid accounts. > > Oh, for some reason many emails are duplicated, e.g., > dim...@gmail.com <javascript:> appears twice. In any case, there are > 17705 > uniques. > > I've never sent an email to 17705 people before... >
It seems that someone mailing from help aatt sagemath fullstop com has accepted this challenge :-), as I got an email telling me about the shutdown... Great work! > > -- William > > > > > > > It should be easy to harvest emails from the account and > > do a couple of rounds of mass-mailing. > > > > If the emails are there, but nothing is done, it'd lead to the loss > > of quite a few karma points amoung unsuspecting sagenb.org users... > > > > If you need hands to do so, please ask around here, I am sure people > > who can and will do this quickly can be found. > > (well, I can spend few hours on this if needed) > > > > Dima > > > > > > > >> > >>> Perhaps emailing then would alleviate the problem a bit. > >>> > >>> Due to shutdown of Google's OpenID users who access the server using > it > >>> won't > >>> be able to login after 17th of April. > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >>> "sage-devel" group. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > >>> email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > >>> To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> William (http://wstein.org) > >> > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "sage-devel" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > William (http://wstein.org) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
