I'm not doing much on IRC, and apparently I'm not alone with that here.
Assuming that someone reporting a problem to wikitech-l will start a new thread (as I did), how about auto-posting each new thread subject line from wikitech-l on IRC automatically?
(here I am again, throwing tech solutions at social problems...)
Almost all threads on wikitech-l are dev related, not ops. I happen to do both, so I noticed it. Pushing all thread subjects from wikitech-l to ops folks would pretty much be spam.
Either way, a report is better than no report ;).
Respectfully,
Ryan Lane