My 2 cents: I think making permission to send mail to a user contingent on the user in question authorizing the application to do so is probably the way forward. I would suggest as a rule always making it optional for participation in any OSM related activity.
Alternatively we could simply allow access to the e-mail address (as above) instead of adding a public API to the message system, there are just some privacy issues that I would see with that. Now there's the just the small matter of actually coding it .... Simon Am 05.05.2014 18:27, schrieb Serge Wroclawski: > Simon, > > An example of the kind of thing we'd like to send messages. > > Sending messages that you should try a harder challenge > > For example, if the average time to fix a task in challenge foo is 30 > seconds, and you only take 20 seconds, maybe you should try something > harder > > Sending messages about false fixes > > If I claim to have fixed 2000 tasks, but then the server sees that all > 2000 still remain as problems, we want to send a message > > This isn't an exhaustive list, but it's the kind of thing where we'd > like to reach out to OSM users, and right now, there's no way to do > that without implementing it ourselves. > > - Serge > > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Simon Poole <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Am 05.05.2014 15:52, schrieb Serge Wroclawski: >> >>> The problem is that we are needing to send messages to users. Ideally, >>> those messages would go through osm.org. >>> >> Serge, >> >> what exactly is the use case you are thinking of or better: what >> messages are you thinking of sending? A message API would seem to only >> be required if we are talking about very high volume (a lot more than >> the 100 or so welcome messages I send per month). >> >> I'not arguing against being able to contact mappers better, quite the >> contrary (I suggested the API extension which allows editors to show you >> how many messages you have), just need to understand what your needs are. >> >> Simon >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >>
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