[OSGeo Oceania] MailChimp Mailing List Merging

[Duncan Jackson]

Option 2

On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 at 11:54, adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I vote for option 2.
>
> Why?
>
> - option 1 feels a lot like potential spam - we didn’t ask for consent to
> put attendees on an ongoing comms e-mail list. The opt-out makes it legally
> OK (as far as I can tell, see link below), but not really up to scratch on
> my personal ethics-o-meter.
> - preferring smaller lists of people who actively opt in to larger lists
> of potential zombie addresses.
>
> Our obligations are here, FYI:
> https://www.acma.gov.au/theACMA/spam-industry-obligations
>
> Cheers
>
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 at 13:15, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> We have two large lists of people on in MailChimp.
>>
>> The first is the general list, where people have signed up and this has
>> 200 subscribers and the second is the conference attendees list, which has
>> 300 subscribers.
>>
>> We have two options to merge these lists:
>>
>>    1. Merge the two lists, then send an email to the new list offering
>>    people the opportunity to opt out
>>    2. Don't merge the lists, but send an email to the conference
>>    attendees list offering the opportunity to opt in to the main list.
>>
>> My view is that we should merge the lists, and allow people to opt out,
>> as this will leave us with a larger contact list, most likely. So my vote
>> is for option 1.
>>
>> Look forward to your thoughts.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> --
>> Alex Leith
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>
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