Future e-mail notifications

Placeholder because of office hours.

Discussion notes

• I think you should ask for permission before sending such emails to inactive users.
  • Of course asking for permission is, itself, an e-mail
  • May be capable with some sort of "necromancy" flag that block sending of notifications to these users until the user is active again
• And we should ask by sending a first email to all.
  • Consider notifying users about notifcations with a link to the options to opt-out
  • The above is another reason to provide global preferences
• The feature should definitely be made opt-in only.
  • I'm not sure the above is realistic
  • Since there are more notifications in the future, consider an user preference: "opt out of all new notification types by default"
• Opt-out link should be added at the bottom any notification e-mail
  • This may not be a legal requirement (a la CAN-SPAM) due to this not being considered a "marketing message" in the US, so opt-out can be behind password (unlike CAN-SPAM requirements)
  • We'll need to provide opt-out on some sort of "per notification type" basis
  • If we do across notifications rollup, opt out link behavior needs to be worked out
  • Avoid combinatorial explosion in user-preferences
  • Some sort of global preference needs to be ported here as it is unrealistic to ask the user to visit every wiki to opt-out.
• E-mail format?
  • Plaintext
  • Plaintext + HTML?
  • HTML option?
• Next Steps
  • Contact by creating a topic page on meta (with some designs)
  • logistics of informing the other communities?
  • Inform ComCom to add to wikimedia highlights?