Am I stupid ?

It's on the launcher and Bioware sent me an email today. Not sure what else you'd like them to do.

I told you... they should send a Stripper-gram to my house to communicate all updates to me in the form of lap-dances

it's simply funny...
I mean, a lot of people were waiting this transfer. During all these months devs have realesed interviews and post about the incoming transfer. I have read a tons of post of customer and devs debating this "patch", and now i realize there are also people who doesn't know about the SWTOR little universe.
And for those who says "i don't have time; i want e-mail; ect", i'm not against you, but this game is a MMO and as a MMO it continue to develop, and if you like spend time playing, you should visit the main website, to talk with your server community, take notice about patches and new content, and read about the others players differents point of view and the hints of your class. It's a good way to enjoy more the game.
sorry for my incorrect english and may the force be with you.

TL;DR: checking website it's funny and it's in the MMO nature

Definitely too much work. BW needs to develop some form of telepathy to let each individual player know when their server is eligible. Seriously, the various transfer related threads today have really shown me just how entitled this player base feels, and its ludicrous. These aren't forced mergers, so they have no need to inform you. Its an optional free service, and if you wish to partake, and the stickied threads, pointer on the launcher, etc aren't enough for you then I guess you're SOL.

In retrospect, the TOR community is starting to make the WoW forum community look like mature rational adults, and that was the biggest collection of whining trolls I'd ever met. In short, I'd like to answer the OP's title with "Yes"

No one knows, most likely including Bioware. Balancing population is a fluid process. You can't pre announce what servers are gonna be eligible when and to where when you have to make those decisions as you go along.

And they have about 8 different ways of letting them know. The subscriber who want to take advantage of this free and optional service should have enough interest to be able to follow one of them.

I lol'ed. Newsgroups! Kudos to you sir for giving me flashbacks to 1995. +1 interwebz to you!

Not good enough.
I want you to take out a full page add in my local newspaper alerting me when it's time. A personal phone call from any of the devs would also suffice.

Its announced in the game launcher that transfers have started with a link to the relevant page here.

i think bioware had a bunch of lawyers write up a big terms and agreements thing you have to electronically sign for in order to play the game that states your totally responsible for everything involving your account and this game thus releasing them of any dumb stuff you do to F* yourself over like not taking advantage of the well publicized free character transfer. id also like to point out the word free meaning a service you are NOT paying for. they are doing you a favor, and they owe you nothing more than what you already have.