Bitergia isn't the actual sender, it would be limesurvey.  I will look into
how it sends on behalf of but the idea is not to use a mailing list
software but to have the survey software send each individually.

I doubt di30 talks about this as I have been suggesting offlist how to
improve the deliverability and response rate of the survey.

On Sat, Nov 2, 2019, 12:35 Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 10:26 AM Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > The Apache.org email addresses are easily harvested from our mailing
> > list archives.
> >
> > This would be an export from LDAP or similar of all @apache.org
> > addresses which is the same as committers@ but will be sent directly
> > instead of routed through a mailing list.
> >
> > There are significant deliverability and response rate concerns with
> > using a mailing list.
>
> I may have misunderstood the intent of
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DI-30.
>
> If there is a need to create an alias for all committers, that could
> be easily constructed.  Bitergia would send a single email to our
> infrastructure, and our infrastructure would be forwarded to each id
> on the list.
>
> If such an alias were created, it should either be set up to only
> allow emails from known Bitergia emails, and the alias should be taken
> down when not in use, as it would be a vector for spam.
>
> - Sam Ruby
>
> > Regards,
> > KAM
> >
> > On 11/2/2019 5:53 AM, Justin Mclean wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I would also be uncomfortable in creating a list of people to email
> and making that available even internally. Pervious experience with surveys
> (non D&I) at the ASF have shown several times that mistake are made and/or
> emails addresses harvested without permission. If we do go down that path I
> would also like to know how we are creating this list e.g what would be the
> criteria to be on it.
> > >
> > > committers@ has a wide distribution and with correct messaging we can
> use it very little effort and risk.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Justin
> >
> > --
> > Kevin A. McGrail
> > [email protected]
> >
> > Member, Apache Software Foundation
> > Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project
> > https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171
> >
>

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