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Post by kappuchino »

iuri1 wrote: post #437
kappuchino wrote: post #342

Anecdotal: I participated in the reddit secret santa back in ... 2012?! and we all "won" a certificate from guinness records. Except ... that you still had to buy it as a physical copy. And so some poor marketing person from guinness sent this email to all the participants - no bcc, not even cc. And then the frist person replied. Another. And another. It was a party. So guinness issued an apology (and hopefully didn'…

Did they sent the bonus certificate for participating in the biggest e-mail spam list as well?

No, but maybe GitHub can issue one now :-)

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by innocenat »

Gigachad wrote: post #196
innocenat wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was sleeping and the constant new mails notification woke me. By then it was too late to unsubscribe as the topics was already locked, but I was only on like 60-70th mails.

You should really change your settings so random emails don't ring out at night.

Nah it was noon. I was sleeping in.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by NullPrefix »

blensor wrote: post #217
faustomorales wrote: post #82

Seems like an innocent enough mistake. Remind me of when I once helped organize a volunteer hackathon with people from different companies. We created a Slack organization just for the occasion. At the end of the event, I was supposed to ask all attendees to delete all the data we had given them before they went home. The message I posted to #general (the channel everyone in a Slack organization is required to be in)…

The real problem was that so many people felt the urge to reply to that PR making it so much worse than a single ping. I can live with the random message that has nothing to do with me, but having to delete an endless stream of messages because so many people felt the need to reply already knowing that it would go out to everyone is really annoying

UNSUBSCRIBE!

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by tony »

nabakin wrote: post #183
seba_dos1 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It must be hard for GitHub servers, but which e-mail client is crashing from about 100 short, text-only messages received in an hour?

I doubt it but I wonder if OP is lying and didn't realize there would only be a hundred or two emails

Can you restate.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by user_7832 »

bigDinosaur wrote: post #392
user_7832 wrote: post #375

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Verify the pull request and merge asap" is a bit ridiculous I see you're not familiar with Indian-English. What he said sounds quite "reasonable" (if not a bit unnecessarily, but understandably urgent) to someone like me (am Indian).

How is it understandably urgent? It seems like the least urgent merge request I've ever seen.

Downvoting folks aren't understanding the context.

Understandable is in the Indian context. Generally a lot of things in India are slow/delayed so it's pretty common for people to want everything "fast" (which is probably "regular speed" in the US etc). I agree the content is hardly urgent, but for an Indian everything is urgent.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by vonseel »

Pako wrote: post #313
silisili wrote: post #298

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't quite get the mindset here. I'm (slowly and lazily) learning a new language, and can't imagine going into some native speaker's repo and trying to correct it...

This kinda looks like an attempt to get a commit into a bigger open source repository. It'd look nice on a resume to say you "contributed to Unreal Engine on GitHub".

I got a commit into Django a few years ago. It was just updating a documentation link, but are you saying I should put it on my resume?

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by tony »

wolverine876 wrote: post #212
tony wrote: post #5

The toothpaste is out of the tube - notifications are going to be scrutinized more in the future, from this point on. I got the email. And about 20+ responses to that email. Every person who replies to that issue triggers another 400k emails. Personally, my email client is crashing. EpicGames, as a GitHub org is an outlier, it's basically an SSO for Unreal Engine. I forgot I was even a member of it.

> I got the email. And about 20+ responses to that email. > Every person who replies to that issue triggers another 400k emails. Personally, my email client is crashing. Your email client only received 20 messages; why is it crashing? The very long To: header?

It's a personal testimony. Immaterial to the main point of the post.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by tony »

seba_dos1 wrote: post #10
tony wrote: post #5

The toothpaste is out of the tube - notifications are going to be scrutinized more in the future, from this point on. I got the email. And about 20+ responses to that email. Every person who replies to that issue triggers another 400k emails. Personally, my email client is crashing. EpicGames, as a GitHub org is an outlier, it's basically an SSO for Unreal Engine. I forgot I was even a member of it.

It must be hard for GitHub servers, but which e-mail client is crashing from about 100 short, text-only messages received in an hour?

Irrelevant to the topic.
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