--- Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
There is currently no requirement for admins on the English Wikipedia to enable their email. I proposed adding this to the policy almost a year ago, but there was no support for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Blocking_policy#Email_proposal
This is such a blindingly obvious thing that I�m shocked there was not more support for it. I will continue to nag admins that don�t do this since so many emails from people who get blocked go to me (since I�m one of the few admins on the admin list that gives an obvious link to my �email this user� form). I�m sure most people don�t even get as far as the admin list.
In fact there should be an auto link to �email the admin who blocked you� for block messages. Of course the blocking admin need not respond via email and thus give up their email address to vandals who may spam bomb them and there should be a per IP throttle limit to the number of emails that can be sent using this option (server side virus checks would also be useful).
But blocking an IP and not giving any potentially innocent people who also use that IP an easy way to inform somebody about it, is not fair and very unwiki.
-- mav
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:32:43 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
In fact there should be an auto link to 'email the admin who blocked you' for block messages.
There is one. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Blockedtext but it's less useful for banned IPs since they'd need to first create an account to make use of the "email this user" feature.
server side virus checks would also be useful
This isn't necessary since only plain text emails can be sent through the wiki.
Angela.