[Foundation-l] spamming of the english wikipedia users detected

Wed Jul 4 14:40:32 UTC 2007

On 7/4/07, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> By being associated with Wikipedia, and checking the little box to
> accept "Wikipedia e-mails", these people acknowledged that they were
> OK to receive this targetted mailing.
>
I checked the box because I knew that it would be tough for people to
send mass emails through the system.  If it starts being used for mass
mailings, I'll either uncheck the box or set up my filters to send
such mail into a folder which I'll rarely check.

By checking the box did I unknowingly acknowledge that I "was OK to
receive this targetted mailing"?  Who cares?  This isn't a court of
law.  I'm not trying to sue Gregory.  I'm not even suggesting that he
should be reprimanded.  And I don't think his intent was to do
something wrong.

I still found the message annoying, and I still think we should find a
way to stop others from doing the same thing.