Hi Otto,
* Otto Kekäläinen otto@fsfe.org [2010-10-26 18:57:35 +0300]:
What do you mean with "who they are"?
The names of them, their e-mail addresses and maybe zip-codes. At the moment I don't have a clue who they are except for the ones I know personally otherwise.
Ok.
Reinhard could also send you a list of all Fellows who said they would like to be contacted by us. But if you want to know more from them than their name and zip code, we can send out your message.
Reinhard checked this for me last year and none of the Finns allowed that in the join form. I think the wording is not good (and I've sent you feedback about this last year Nov 26th when you thought about redesigning the join form anyway).
But yes, I'll send the message to Reinhard.
Hm, in this case we have a problem. Normally Reinhard only sends this messages to Fellows who said they want to be contacted. But I agree with you that we have to clarify it on the join formular what this checkbox is about. Depending on the cultural background it might discourage people to let us contact them. From what you told me this is the case in Finland. (I hope we will soon be able to fix that in the join formular.)
Reinhard, would you see a hugo problem if we make an exception from our normal procedures for the Finnish Fellows, so Otto can contact them once by e-mail. Than Otto has the chance to explain them what he wants to achieve and they can decide to reply to him and get in contact with him.
Regards, Matthias