----- Original Message ----- From: lcrocker@nupedia.com To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 11:11 AM Subject: [Wikipedia-l] "Email this user" function
| One of the post-live features I'd like to implement is a link on User | pages for "email this user", which will produce a form that can be | used to send email to the user without actually revealing the email | address, for those times when you want to talk to someone directly who | may not be active on the list or follow the talk pages. This will | also help reduce the clutter on talk pages.
I think it's a great idea. I could take my address of my user page and stop it from being harvested my malicious bots.
| I'd like to get a sense from the community what privacy issues or | other issues there are in implementing such a feature. We may want to | have a user setting for "don't allow email" or something, though I | personally would rather not have that feature, and I definitely want | it turned off for sysops (a working, responsive email address is the | single most important qualification for a sysop as far as I'm | concerned, although I suppose active participation on the mailing list | might be an acceptable alternative).
Since the code does not verify email addresses on sign-up anyway I don't think this is such a big issue. The traffic generated would be minimal anyway and should anyone feel annoyed they could just change their address in their user prefs to eg. foo@whatever.ac
| I'd also like to brainstorm a bit on how to raise the visibility of | the mailing list.
Well we should somehow bring [[Wikipedia_Announcements]] back to life. The last entry is from May 17!!
regards, [[user:WojPob]]