AUGD: Good practises in group communications? (Email)
AUGD: Good practises in group communications? (Email)
- Subject: AUGD: Good practises in group communications? (Email)
- From: David Feng <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:04:58 +0800
We at BeiMac (the Beijing Macintosh User Group) are nearing 500
members (and have plans to expand upon that), so we maintain a huge
list of email addresses. We have gut-level detest for spam, so we've
gone out of our way to tell those who are receiving our emails that
what we're sending is not spam.
To this end:
1. we've declared ALL of the email addresses we use to send
legitimate monthly reminder emails, as well as the occasional extra;
2. we've published the entirety of our emails (headers and footers
aside) on our group websites and on our central forums;
3. we also publish an announcement at our site detailing when we've
sent the emails-in-question, and we've set a time-frame for sending
them out.
(Some of these measures are new - so if you go to beimac.com, you
might see them only beginning in July 2007.)
We do this because:
1. we, like our ISPs, have zero tolerance for spam;
2. we know people can sometimes spoof us, which is why we've done (2)
and (3) (as above);
3. we have very, very severe regulations against spamming; if you're
a member at our group and get caught spamming, your membership is
gone - no buts - and you're not allowed back (and you can't reapply)
for at least three months (that's if your case is very light; if it's
severe enough, the wait gets even longer). It doesn't matter if
you're the honorable Secretary or a new member; everyone gets equal
treatment.
FWIW - The same severity of group regulations also apply to people
who do pirate software (it's bad enough that some stats say 97% of
China's software users use pirated stuff) - this includes even USING
pirated software at our meetings, not just the mere "exchanging" of
pirate stuff, or using the Web to visit so-called "warez sites". (So
far, this rule has worked remarkably well; people have never done
piracy at our meetings.)
I'd like to hear some input - especially in terms of our email
communications - are we being transparent/anti-spam enough? As we say
in our email, we have gut-level detest for spam and have nothing to
hide.
David Feng
BeiMac
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