Hi! I strongly advice against a general mass messaging API. If there is a messaging API it can be used for spamming. That we already have minor spamming issues is no argument for making them worse.
A mechanism where a user has to explicitly opt-in into receiving mass messages when authorizing and application might work. A major point when I am advertising OSM and trying to recruit new mappers is the statement: Just make an account, it's simple, free and guaranteed that you get no SPAM or ads. Breaking with that might make a very bad impression. Even putting an opt-in OSM mechanism into the service of one or a few selected applications might hurt the neutral and unproblematic status. Therefore I believe it is a good thing that there is no way to send mass mails through OSM and would like to keep it that way. bye, Nop -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Sending-messages-to-users-tp5805236p5805595.html Sent from the Developer Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
