Why not just make use of the Special:EmailUser function?

Cyberpower678
English Wikipedia Account Creation Team
English Wikipedia Administrator
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> On Feb 10, 2018, at 06:26, Martin Urbanec <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> upon request at Czech Wikipedia's helpdesk I created a tool that sends 
> notifications about new weekly articles by e-mail together with its first 
> paragraph and link to it. To accomplish such a thing I need user's email, so 
> I firstly decided to store it in a database. To prevent this tool from 
> spamming I of course require its confirmation by accessing an URL with a 
> random string (MD5 hash of user's email and random number from 1 to 100; I 
> mean, those two things are in one hash). You can have a look at this tool at 
> tools.wmflabs.org/wiki2email/.
> 
> My question is: Is this okay? Should I add some kind of formal information to 
> the tool? If so, is there some help page? Should I stop with collecting mails 
> at all and use some WMF-maintained service for mass-emailing (mailman at 
> lists.wikimedia.org maybe?) and make the tool to just send an email to the 
> list itself? 
> 
> This question came to my mind before creating, so I do appologize for asking 
> after programming. 
> 
> Best regards, 
> Martin Urbanec
> -- 
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