[OSM-talk] Random thoughts (Ed Loach)

[Donald Campbell II]

That's a nice little discovery you made there.  And in fact I've missed
credit card notices and things like that due to updated email addresses or
over-zealous SPAM filters.

Perhaps given the amount of work that would be and also the fact that we
don't want to SPAM people that simply don't want to be involved anymore the
list of unresponded contributors could be sorted by number of edits. That
way the people who are personally investigated would be a maximum "return on
investment" of time and if many of the larger ones are successfully
contacted then perhaps the still missing contributors will be those who
weren't very active and didn't do much editing.  Wouldn't want to delete
half a country if someone merely changed their email and were too busy with
life to stay active in the community.  I'm glad I've joined the lists and
know what's going on or 90% of Guyana would be deleted if I didn't approve
the license change.  Otherwise that would be a huge loss and I'm sure most
people just don't care about the license arguments and just want their work
to not go to waste.  I would be pretty upset if years of work were deleted
because I didn't get the emails.

-Don.
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