Going back to study homepage here https://privacystudy.cs.princeton.edu/ there is another update, now from the lead investigator, that includes the following paragraph:
"Second, our team is prioritizing a possible one-time follow-up email to recipients, identifying the academic study and recommending that they disregard the prior email. If that is feasible, and if experts in the email operator community agree with the proposal, we will send the follow-up emails as expeditiously as possible."
Did this study send automated emails in such volume that they can't work out how to send an apology without triggering spam protections? Or did they send email and not record it? What is he saying here?
Option #1 con: we will be spamming people a second time. If the first round of spamming puts us in legal/ethical jeopardy, then this second round of spamming could make it worst
We have not performed Option #1 yet. We do not know whether we should perform Option #1 or not. We are taking the temperature of the 'email operator community' to see whether we should performed Option #1 or not. If Option #1 gets the green-light then we'll do it ASAP."
"Second, our team is prioritizing a possible one-time follow-up email to recipients, identifying the academic study and recommending that they disregard the prior email. If that is feasible, and if experts in the email operator community agree with the proposal, we will send the follow-up emails as expeditiously as possible."
Did this study send automated emails in such volume that they can't work out how to send an apology without triggering spam protections? Or did they send email and not record it? What is he saying here?