[OSM-talk] mass mailing osm mappers

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Russ Nelson wrote:
>  > 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.

Must've been another Russ N. then ;-)

> 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.

Not sure if that hits it either. You're right about spammers but if you 
map in Long Beach (and are uninterested in mapping LA) and someone sets 
up a SoCal OSM convention in LA, you wouldn't get that invitation... so 
whoever hosts an event should have the option of somehow specifying the 
catchment area for the event! Maybe spamemrs could be kept at bay by 
simply setting an upper limit for messages generated.

Bye
Frederk

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