Re: [Talk-us] Way to message a bunch of users at once?

2016-07-20 Thread Toby Murray
Well there was already significant work done on a "groups" feature that would have let users opt in to location-specific groups. But it never got a final push to completion. The work and discussion surrounding it are in a GitHub pull request:

Re: [Talk-us] Way to message a bunch of users at once?

2016-07-19 Thread Russ Nelson
Jonathan Schleuss writes: > Is there a way to email multiple users at once? Yes and no. I created a hack to mail to geolocated OSM users, but I feel disinclined to share that. Of course the board of directors can authorize the sysadmins to send bulk email, but that happens only rarely. I

Re: [Talk-us] Way to message a bunch of users at once?

2016-07-19 Thread Kevin Kenny
I'd really not see OSM messaging turn into a vehicle for spam. I know that's not what you're doing, but a multi-message facility would surely be abused that way. The best thing I can think of off the top of my head. is to have the admins of lists.openstreetmap.org create a mailing list for your

[Talk-us] Way to message a bunch of users at once?

2016-07-19 Thread Jonathan Schleuss
Hi all, Is there a way to email multiple users at once? Prior to each local event I copy/paste a markdown file into openstreetmap.org over and over again to contact local mappers. It would save me so much time to email them all at once. Is there anyway to do that? Or does anyone have tips for