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

Wed Jul 4 16:51:41 UTC 2007

On 7/4/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/07/07, Tuvic <tuvic.tuvic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That's totally incorrect. The checkbox says "Enable e-mail from other
> > users", not "Enable bot-generated targetted mailings". It's an abuse
> > of the e-mail-function according to me: this is not what it's meant
> > for. I can see this slipping into signpost updates, Rfd-notices, and a
> > whole lot of other purposes, and it will probably end in users
> > disabling the e-mail function.
>
> "The email address may be used by the Wikimedia Foundation to
> communicate with users on a wider scale", quoth our good friend the
> privacy policy.

Gregory Maxwell is not "the Wikimedia Foundation".