[OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

[Michael Collinson]

On 05/02/2012 12:51, David Earl wrote:
> On 04/02/2012 18:45, Michael Collinson wrote:
>> ... try and contact anyone who has not decided about re-licensing
>
> While several of us in Cambridgeshire have tried this, we've had very 
> limited success. It's hard to tell, but the problem seems to that the 
> vast majority of the problem people aren't receiving the emails. We 
> have no way to contact them.
>
> (It's especially frustrating when people deleted my original 
> painstaking mapping and replaced it, only for that now to need to be 
> replaced.)
>
> It would help to know that email is bouncing. Tom, is it possible to 
> change the mail system to get bounces to go back to the sender, or if 
> that is considered too revealing of personal info, then at least a 
> message that a bounce was received, rather than just black-holing it? 
> Then we know for sure this mapper's contributions have to be replaced, 
> rather than hanging on in the hope they may reply (those who have 
> replied have not done so quickly, I;'ve largely given up waiting). 

Yes, we have to be very careful about folks details as per UK Data 
Protection Act. Generally exposing information is a no-no, so what we 
are looking at is authorising one or two people to have enough access to 
perform the, legitimate, task of pinpointing and trying to contact such 
folks. Simon Poole has kindly volunteered to take this on

Mike