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• The only thing missing, from my perspective of being on the

end of an IP ban, was a way to contact the administrator: perhaps banned IP's should have a single 'talkback' page that they could be allowed to write to, or a way of notifying the list via an E-mail gateway.

I've already planned a "mail this user" feature; maybe the "you've been blocked" page should have a link to mail the specific sysop who did the block.

It's pretty easy to post to Wikipedia-L though; nothing blocks that.

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• A general "You have mail: click here to read" flag for a user

would be useful: maybe based on an update to their user talk page more recent than their most recent visit to that page.

That's not a bad idea either; I perfer actual email for direct communication, but user talk pages are there, and are being used for that There's already a link to your user page at the top of the page (at least in the standard skin; I don't remember about CB); perhaps we should have a flag next to it with a link that only appears when there have been changes to your user talk since you last visited it.