[Wikipedia-l] "Email this user" function

[Fred Bauder]

Sounds good, downside for me is junk mail. Might put posting to the mailing
list as an alternative to emailing a user (but that might clutter up the
mailing list with lots of details about particular articles).

Another thing. I have had some trouble with control codes (caused by
copying to other programs then later pasting to an edit page). They are
invisible in edit but then mess up the article.  Any way to make them
visible while editing?

Fred Bauder

At 02:11 AM 7/11/02 -0700, you wrote:
>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'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).
>
>I'd also like to brainstorm a bit on how to raise the visibility of
>the mailing list.
>
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