[maemo-community] Coding competition 2011 - mass emailing

[From: Michael Cronenworth]

andrew at bleb.org wrote:
> 50,000 people do not want to get the email, and you'll only piss them off, alienate them and generate bad press and accusations of spamming if they do.

I don't get what the big deal is since Maemo.org has sent about 1 e-mail 
out a year. It's for a legitimate reason for a Maemo.org event. If a 
user doesn't want an e-mail about Maemo, why did they create a Maemo 
account?