I agree this could be a concern, from my experience two years ago.
True nomcom aficionados, the ones who will run the selection process in parallel with the Chair, will know that the official announcements from this Nomcom are also found at:
On 19 June 2015 at 16:37, Toerless Eckert <eckert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't think normal NomCom mails would be affected, just this
gratuitous lottery process announcement which might get filtered
because of way to many mentionings of lotteries.
So i thought this was more fun than serious if it got filtered.
Of course, if spam filters would associate nomcom with a lottery process
more permanently, then it might impact actually useful nomcom mails.
Cheers
Toerless
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 07:17:08PM +0200, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> On 06/19/2015 07:11 PM, Toerless Eckert wrote:
> >Sorry, friday comic relief email:
> >
> >I wonder how many spam filters hold back these NomCom process mails due to
> >their suspicious content ;-))
>
> I do wonder, given that out of my database of 372 emails who have been
> said to have volunteered for the nomcom at one time or another, I have
> 51 qualified and 120 non-qualified volunteers who have not replied to my
> emails.... the deadline is still Monday....
>
>
> >
> >On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:03:03AM -0700, NomCom Chair 2015 wrote:
> >>As per RFC3777, and using the RFC3797,
> >>Publicly Verifiable Nominations Committee (NomCom) Random Selection
> >>
> >>the following are the seed selection that will be used on July 6, 2015
> >>(2015-07-06).
> >>
> >>Canadian Lottery Lotto 649
> >>Wednesday, July 1, 2015 Results:
> >>https://loteries.espacejeux.com/en/lotteries/lotto-6-49?date=2015-07-01#res
> >> (7 numbers including the bonus number: numbers between 1 and 49)
> >>
> >>US National debt ("Debt Held by the Public"), published by the
> >>Treasury department as of Thursday, July 2, 2014
> >>http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np
> >>
> >>http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/debt/search?startMonth=07&startDay=2&startYear=2015&endMonth=&endDay=&endYear=
> >> Last 8 digits, ignore the commas and periods
> >>
> >>US National debt ("Intragovernmental Holdings"), published by the
> >>Treasury department as of Thursday, July 2, 2014, on the same link as
> >>above.
> >>
> >> Last 8 digits, ignore the commas and periods
> >>
> >>Euromillions Lottery
> >>Friday July 3, 2014 Results:
> >>http://www.europeanlotteryguild.com/lottery_results/euromillions_results/
> >>http://www.europeanlotteryguild.com/lottery_results/euromillions_results/draw_history?results_date=2015-07-03
> >> (7 numbers including the star balls: 5 numbers between 1 and 50 and 2
> >> star balls between 1 and 11)
> >>
> >>All the above seeds will be provided (in the order listed above) as
> >>input to the RFC 3797 selection algorithm to determine the ten
> >>voting members of the 2014-15 Nomcom.
> >>
> >>Harald Alvestrand
> >>Nomcom Chair 2015-16
> >>nomcom-chair-2015@xxxxxxxx