On 03/08/11 16:15, Rob Weir wrote:
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Terry Ellison<[email protected]> wrote:
On 03/08/11 15:14, Rob Weir wrote:
A specific question then that should not require diverting your
current efforts. Is there a announcement list or some other mechanism
to send an email to every registered wiki user?
At a technical level, it's simple to run a query dumping all of the mail
addresses of contributors to the wiki. I've just done a few on my local VM
which has a snapshot of the prod wiki as at Thursday/Fri night IIRC.
* There are 34,969 registered users. Of which
* 3,675 have made contributions. There is no need to contact those
who haven't
* 3,623 have registered email addresses and have made 182,677
contributions
* 52 have no registered email addresses and have made 153
contributions (prob dating back to the early days when email
registration and confirmation wasn't mandatory
It is trivial to dump this list of user / email addr / post count.
However giving this to Apache and the project making use of it is a more
complex issue. The server is current located in Oracle's Hamburg facility
under German / EU legislation. We have data protection legislation and
Anti-Spam guidelines / legislation to bear in mind here. Moving email
addresses across national and organisational boundary might trigger these.
Also one can't send out mailshot emails in the EU unless the recipients
have first agreed in principle to accept these.
What I can do is to provide this data to Andrew via the internal Oracle
email, and let him figure out the legal / compliance issues and terms of use
before him making it available to the project. Not my call.
Good enough. Thanks. I was hoping that there would be some community
email list that everyone was already signed up on. Maybe if not at
the wiki system level, then at the OpenOffice.org level? If there is
a master announce list that everyone is already on, then we'd be
golden.
(Some) developers for some arcane reason seem to like DLs. AFAIK,
others and the majority of users hate them and regard them as spam,
preferring less invasive pull technologies such as forums and
subscription services such as gmane. For example, I routinely work 6
forums and 4 wikis, plus a dozen gname lists. This is the only SMTP DL
that I am on. Announce Lists just don't work in this end-user world.
