On Saturday 08 January 2005 06:19, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Anybody here familiar with automated email systems?
The board and I would
like the ability to thank every person who donated last year via PayPal and
Moneybookers. Such a system would also need to be used in the future to do
the same thing.
I personally hate automated emailing. All new members of the Wikinerds
Community receive a personal welcome email or message from me, typed by me,
and everytime it is a different one. Every person is happy to be unique and
this uniqueness must be reaffirmed in every communication.
When I donate to a project I expect not a machine, but a real human to thank
me. There are many Wikipedians in your project and I am sure that it is
possible to find willing Wikipedians to write short "thank you" messages to
the donors. The messages, however, should not be send from the Wikipedians
but by an automated software system or a trusted administrator (who will also
moderate the messages), for the protection of the donors' privacy.
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