--On Friday, May 18, 2001 14:07:47 +0100 Chris Withers <chrisw@nipltd.com> wrote:
1. I _would_ like to know where DC got those email addresses from, and why they chose to email that group of people. (the first part of which I think I'm entitled to under the UK's Data Protection Act)
Hi, chris. As this part was pretty much me, I can answer it: I used a script to loop through the publicly availiable archives and build a list of people who had sent mail to the zope lists. There was (i think) some culling past that point, but I know that my script wasn't that bright, so we probably sent out some emails where I could have caught the redundancy. As far as I know, the reasons we sent the email out as a batch as opposed to posting to the lists are: o unique key per survey- ballot-box stuffing issue. o greater statistical validity- the response rate and self selection is less biased. o catch users that have sense unsubbed- surely we need to ask these people how to improve zope :) spam-spam-spam-spam-bacon-and-spam-ly yours, -- ethan mindlace fremen zopatista community liason