On 2/14/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I have a worrying feeling that would be spammed by nonsense requests too often to be useful...
That would be a problem; I'm not sure how big of one. Unblock-en-l gets plenty of spam, but posts by non-subscribed emails require approval before getting sent out, so even despite the 10:1 noise-to-signal ratio, the list still functions. From what I hear, the other WMF mailing lists are a bit similar in that regard.
Unless you were thinking more of "Please delete [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] because it sux lol," (or slightly less obvious nonsense), which might still be a problem. CSD is hard to keep on top of. Prod seems to get around 100-200 pages daily, AfD is similar. Merging all that onto a mailing list would be very, very busy. Unless, of course, this mailing list is only for the people who *don't* know our deletion process, which would reduce the load on the list a bit. At that point, it might be worth exploring.
Or perhaps we could have a more obvious "report a problem with this article," link. I suppose that would have to go to OTRS, given the wide variety and occassional sensitive nature of the emails such a link would surely generate.
Just rambling, -Luna