[OSM-talk] mass mailing osm mappers

[Russ Nelson]

Frederik Ramm writes:
 > Both of these are unwanted; (a) is not possible without actually moving 
 > your own location around in small increments - a certain Russ N. 
 > reputedly has a script that does that and got bollocked for it.

Nope, didn't.  Nobody ever complained.

 > I think it would be nice to have a feature where users can actually 
 > enable a check box in their profile "I wish to be contacted by other 
 > mappers in my area about mapping events or other things of relevance", 
 > and then an interface where you can simply draw a bounding box and say 
 > "send this message to all mappers in this box who have the checkbox ticked".

No, that doesn't work.  Instead, the mapper needs to select a bounding
box (or two or more) for the areas they're interested in.  Then, when
you post a message about a particular point, it goes to everyone with
a matching bounding box.

Otherwise ... Spammers just pick a bounding box the size of the world.

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