[Talk-us] Anybody had any contact with this user?

[ajt1047 at gmail.com]

On 04/09/2015 04:55, James Mast wrote:
> ...  but I've sent him two messages in the last 2 months without any 
> response back from him, asking him if he could please add a 'comment' 
> to his changesets after he was mass adding some data in my local area 
> a few times (mostly just buildings from Bing as far as I could tell).

It's certainly possible that (for whatever reason) they just haven't 
noticed the messages.  It's happened to me - I've sometimes not noticed 
the number at the top right of the osm.org website and if they're not 
using JOSM (which this user isn't) they won't see the more prominent 
"new message" display there.

Also, if the messages were added as changeset discussion comments then a 
user that doesn't regularly check emails (which some people don't - 
perhaps they receive mail on a computer at home and are editing OSM from 
a different one elsewhere) then it's possible that they may not be read 
immediately.  Something that's also happened to me is that after a mail 
server problem at my end has been fixed there's been a delay getting 
mails from OSM sent again.

If all other avenues are exhausted and you really wants to get in touch, 
as a last resort drop the Data Working Group (data at osmfoundation.org) a 
message and we can send a user a message that has to be read before they 
can continue mapping (making it clear that they're not being blocked for 
any sort of "bad editing", but that we'd really like them to reply to 
messages that have been sent, or reply to changeset discussions, or 
similar).

Cheers,

Andy (SomeoneElse)

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