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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2010 (resend)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:19:06 +0300
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:14 PM, David Bainbridge
<david.bainbridge@gmail.com> wrote:
> On the question of spamming here is another aspect; if I send mail to
> everyone on a public list then it is spam. If I send a message to
> everyone at work asking them to respond then I am just doing my job.
> The problem is how to address the unpaid volunteer sector of the open
> source community without being perceived as spamming.

Note that perhaps spamming is not the right word.

I think the plan is to send the mail only to the communities that use
git, so chances are that many people would be interested on filling
out the survey. It has been done in previous years, and I think nobody
complained.

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Felipe Contreras