Last modified: 2011-05-14 15:29:01 UTC
There is an emerging consensus to enable email notification of talk page changes (with a default to off) on the English Wikipedia, per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#You_have_new_messages . The only concern that has been raised is whether it would make the servers cry, but the sysadmin team is more qualified to answer this than anyone else.
Permanent link to the discussion here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29&oldid=376201643#You_have_new_messages
Mark, I think you mentioned plans for this once, could you pitch in?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 5220 ***