https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61555
--- Comment #3 from Merlijn van Deen valhallasw@arctus.nl --- Just a quick note -- when tracing the http calls made by pywikibot, I noticed it already does a lot of 'check user status' calls, including a check for talk page messages. I haven't traced where these calls come from, though, and AFAIK the bot also doesn't respond to the information.