public apology for company spam

2009-03-05 Thread Yonik Seeley
This morning, an apparently over-zealous marketing firm, on behalf of the company I work for, sent out a marketing email to a large number of subscribers of the Lucene email lists. This was done without my knowledge or approval, and I can assure you that I'll make all efforts to prevent it from

Re: public apology for company spam

2009-03-05 Thread Glen Newton
Yonik, Thank-you for your email. I appreciated and accept your apology. Indeed the spam was annoying, but I think that you and your colleagues have significant social capital in the Lucene and Solr communities, so this minor but unfortunate incident should have minimal impact. That said, you

Re: public apology for company spam

2009-03-05 Thread Mike Klaas
On 5-Mar-09, at 6:47 AM, Yonik Seeley wrote: This morning, an apparently over-zealous marketing firm, on behalf of the company I work for, sent out a marketing email to a large number of subscribers of the Lucene email lists. This was done without my knowledge or approval, and I can assure you