The GOF 5th anniversary email was sent to whichever email address you registered with. Its not spam, and its actually quite vital if we ever have to make boardwide announcements. If you no longer use the address you registered with, there's not much I can do about that and you won't get any emails I send out to all registered members. Not to worry--the GOF 5th anniversary is the only one I have done in that manner, and it was a very special occasion.
I can't take the time to send out birthday emails like that. I'll leave it to the members to send their own emails to members with a birthday.