Meeting with the UC Researcher

2018-11-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I am meeting with the UC Researcher to discuss the spam issue & the apology next Wednesday at 4PM ET. Others are welcome to join if they wish. My key goal is honestly to get a gauge on how well they understand that their apology was even worse than the initial problem. If they don't understand,

Re: Request for Participation in University of Cincinnati - Open Source Survey

2018-11-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Others I talked to didn't get it either.   What a mess :-) On 11/1/2018 3:42 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > I got it. I did not opt out. > > Maybe your spam filter caught it? > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Nov 1, 2018, at 11:56 AM, Ted Dunning wrote: >> >> Ironically, they *didn't* send me the apology

Fwd: RE: Fw: Participate in the conference Testing Stage, 18, Kiev, Ukraine, April

2018-11-01 Thread Sally Khudairi
Hello Apache ComDev --I hope you are well. We continue to receive invitations to this event, and I think that you may be better suited to handle such general requests. Events that are ASF project-specific get forwarded to their respective PMCs, which has worked well thus far. May I forward these s

Re: Request for Participation in University of Cincinnati - Open Source Survey

2018-11-01 Thread Dave Fisher
I got it. I did not opt out. Maybe your spam filter caught it? Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 1, 2018, at 11:56 AM, Ted Dunning wrote: > > Ironically, they *didn't* send me the apology mass email. > > Maybe I had to opt out to get the last of the spam. > > > >> On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 9:10 AM

Re: Request for Participation in University of Cincinnati - Open Source Survey

2018-11-01 Thread Ted Dunning
Ironically, they *didn't* send me the apology mass email. Maybe I had to opt out to get the last of the spam. On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 9:10 AM Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > Yeah, I'm disappointed how they are handling this and would like to see the > email they sent you after unsubscribing. > -- >

Re: Request for Participation in University of Cincinnati - Open Source Survey

2018-11-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Thanks.  I wrote her a pretty strong email. On 11/1/2018 12:32 PM, Joan Touzet wrote: > I got spammed, clicked the "unsubscribe" link, and received only a webpage > confirmation. > > Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/uePkDgE.png > > Privacy Policy and Security Statement both go to a third party, Qu

Re: Request for Participation in University of Cincinnati - Open Source Survey

2018-11-01 Thread Joan Touzet
I got spammed, clicked the "unsubscribe" link, and received only a webpage confirmation. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/uePkDgE.png Privacy Policy and Security Statement both go to a third party, Qualtrics. As a university research in a previous phase of my life, I'm pretty upset with their ha

Re: Request for Participation in University of Cincinnati - Open Source Survey

2018-11-01 Thread Mark Thomas
On 01/11/2018 15:57, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 16.10.2018 20:24, Sharan Foga wrote: >> Hi Everyone >> >> Please see below for a message from some researchers from the University of >> Cincinnati who are running a survey on participation in Open Source. The >> survey is open to all Apache contribut

Re: ASF apology

2018-11-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Sherae, While I appreciate your attempts to email & apologize, they have frankly been amateurish at best. We now have complaints about the apology letter because several people had unsubscribed. Please don't send more emails. Spam is about consent, not content. You could send me the cure to ca

Re: Request for Participation in University of Cincinnati - Open Source Survey

2018-11-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Yeah, I'm disappointed how they are handling this and would like to see the email they sent you after unsubscribing. -- Kevin A. McGrail VP Fundraising, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at

Re: Why are large code drops damaging to a community?

2018-11-01 Thread sebb
On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 08:44, Myrle Krantz wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:32 PM James Dailey wrote: > > > > +1 on this civil discourse. > > > > I would like to offer that sometimes large code drops are unavoidable and > > necessary. Jim's explanation of httpd contribution of type 1 is a g

Re: Request for Participation in University of Cincinnati - Open Source Survey

2018-11-01 Thread Branko Čibej
On 16.10.2018 20:24, Sharan Foga wrote: > Hi Everyone > > Please see below for a message from some researchers from the University of > Cincinnati who are running a survey on participation in Open Source. The > survey is open to all Apache contributors and committers and the researchers > have s