<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> create a bot or tool that makes this ad-hoc list broadcasting function<br>
> (including making sure people are notified via email), I would be ecstatic.<br>
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</div>Such bots are in existance on the english wikipedia, they are also open source.<br>
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The issue is that people don't know how easy it is to start a lists.l.o mailing<br>
list, we need to make that more obvious. That could fix much of this issue.</blockquote><div><br><br>Yes, they exist. But to create and maintain a bot, and then teaching people to use it, and giving permissions to post to given lists of people? It's a complex structure that does not currently exist and would be *more* work to administer by hand.<br>
<br>My point remains. The lists that exist on the wiki now, detract from volunteering and currently provide no benefit as currently used. <br></div></div><br></div>