Multiple email alerts for comment

[ed]

This from a Social Reporter who has received multiple email alerts for a comment to one of the posts. I'm getting other reports coming in from people who have commented on some things and are getting multiple alerts too (more on that elsewhere)...

Hi Ed,

I've had the below email about half a dozen times now....

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Ann

--- On Mon, 22/10/12, Transition Network <site@…> wrote:

From: Transition Network <site@…>
Subject: Comment for : Transition Network Communications - The Web Project
To: "Ann Owen" <saithderwen@…>
Date: Monday, 22 October, 2012, 9:26

Greetings Ann Owen,Comment by Chris Croome: We are not fancy but...
Mark wrote above that the Transition Network decided that:
"no fancy outside web agencies would be paid by the Network to host and look after it"

This isn't totally accurate, there is a web hosting and development co-operative called Webarchitects, who provide a pair of Debian virtual servers called kiwi and quince which run a variety of services including this site.
Webarchitects also do systems administration as part of the transition technologists and all the work of the team is documented on the Transition Technology Trac site, which has a wiki and ticketing system.
Webarchitects are a social enterprise which is organised as a multi-stakeholder co-operative which clients and partners can join and the primary aim of the co-operative is:
"to enable the provision of internet based services for socially responsible groups and individuals, using free open source software wherever possible, in a manner that aims to minimise fossil fuel usage and ecological impacts and which also provides sustainable employment"

Webarchitects are dedicated to using and promoting Free/Libre/Open?-Source Software and providing services in the greenest manner possible, the network servers are located in Sheffield, which enables us to cycle to the colo which is powered by Good Energy.
Webarchitects also host the Transition Sheffield web site, wiki, forum and lists on servers and Sheffield and the Transition Town Totnes web site in Iceland where the whole grid is powered by renewables.
Going forward the thing I'd personally like to see the Network considering is the provision of network services to enable transition initiatives and projects to have easy access to green, secure, non-corporate, federated, autonomous network infrastructure, for example the provision of services such as these:

Word Press hosting, using the multi site system as an alternative to WordPress.com
Drupal hosting using the Community Tools package with OpenStreetMap? for mapping as an alternative to Google Maps
GroupServer? lists and forums as an alternative to Google Groups
IMAP, SMTP and Webmail using Roundcube as an alternative to Gmail
Piwik as an alternative to Google Analytics
Status.net as an alternative to Twitter
A Brdcst it! service as an alternative to dlvr.it for connecting up Facebook, Twitter, RSS feeds etc
A Zend.To server and / or a ownCloud server and / or a sparkleshare server as an alternative to things like Dropbox and Google Drive
A Mumble service as an alternative to Skype for online voice conferencing
A Jabber server for instant messaging (text chat) as an alternative to AIM etc
A Etherpad site as an alternative to PiratePad?
A MediaGoblin? site as an alternative to YouTube?, Flickr and SoundCloud?
As a network we should aim to use free libre open source applications running on green power as an alternative to the fossil fuel powered corporate infrastucture when ever and where ever we can — transition initiatives would never use, let alone advocate, a corporate provider of food such as McDonalds?, yet isn't the use of services such as Gmail the internet equivalent?
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[ed]

This is *definitely* a big issue.

Although I'm now getting reports of people getting alerts addressed to "Anonymous" and getting 404s when the click the un-sub link. Plenty complaints of multiple alerts.

I had this one four times once on October 3rd, once on September 21st
and twice on September 20th.

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From: Transition Network <site@…>
Date: Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 7:01 PM
Subject: Comment for : I heard a story about a man who nicked a telly
and hid it in a bush
To: dee.roye@…

Greetings Anonymous,

Comment by Caroline Jackson: Is it hope?

Thanks for this - a lovely irony that a true denizen of cardboard city
should cause us to question our own little cardboard future.
Shakespeare would be proud of you. For what it's worth I think you
are right about giving up the comforting feelings that we associate
with hope - real hope is getting out of bed each morning and getting
on with making a different tomorrow HOWEVER you feel. It's a place
you keep walking towards unshakeable. Well I guess we all have our
shakeable days but you know what I mean.

Read more ​http://www.transitionnetwork.org/stories/catriona-ross/2012-09/i-heard-s...

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[chris]

The duplicates are caused by edits -- post a comment and a email is sent, edit it to correct a typo and a email is sent...

[ed]

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