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2011-10-25 , 08:48
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Hm, okay. Perhaps I'm answering to late but I would have proposed to ask how long the servers will get loaded until the 50.000 emails are sent?

He could decide himself if a single hour gap between the voting or 6 hours would be needed for the server to recover.

In the case we have to send 9 emails we should ensure that the servers are done with the first batch as soon as the next will begin.

Btw. a voting email each 24 hours wouldn't be a mistake. Remembering myself the last competition and the last concil election voting needs time and is work.
Personally I prefer 20 minutes each evening considering without ruffle or excitement whom to elect instead of about a hour long a full load of "work".
I know myself, what if I'm tired after the 7th poll and selecting randomly in impulse to simply finish with this stuff. I would prefer more time between the polls to have enought time to review the projects.

Originally Posted by mmlado View Post
An hour between emails is good. Maybe you could add a paragraph at the end mentioning there will be 9 letters like that and to add the email address to the spam filter to let it through.
I would prefer a sentence in the beginning. "Maemo/MeeGo Coding Competition 2011 - voting email 1 of 9" - or this sentence in the subject. Who is reading such kind of emails to the end?
 

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