On 13/09/2007, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
There are dozens of reasons why someone might not have email enabled - having left Wikipaedia, being on wikibreak, odd privacy concerns, not involved in blocking people, having offered alternative off-wiki communication, not knowing their email was disabled, etc.
My point is, you can't understand why just from looking at a list, but everyone has a reason, and that makes all the difference.
I don't believe anyone ever said these people might not have reasons for it. It's a trivial note - look, here's a problem, it affects these people; it was dashed off in five minutes. That's *all it is*.
It's not a list of "these are bad people". It's not revealing confidential information. It's not an indepth study and analysis of individuals. It's a note of a known problem*, and - helpfully - a list of some people known to be affected by it, plus implicitly a reminder to non-admins that it might be a good idea to check. I don't see any reason people should be expected to go to great lengths to make sure that no-one has any possible reason to misinterpret them when all they're doing is making a quick helpful comment.
I think I need to return to the phrase "otherwise no-one would ever get any work done", which seems quite appropriate.