On 12/09/2007, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
(Gasp) Oh no! Off with their heads! Off with their heads! Those bad, bad email-less admins. Lets have ourselves a witchunt instead of doing the right (read: boring) thing and asking them on their talk pages about it! I do loves me a witchunt.
In the case of Commons, there was a significant bug which had made a lot of people lose email access who wanted it, who had enabled it and configured it. I don't think automatically assuming evil motives here is helpful.