Bob already does this:
He does? Where?
I like the idea quite a bit. And it'd work nicely with our plan to have the text of deleted posts (and reason) PM'd directly to the author when the deletion is done. Options buttons when reading such posts would be "Reply", "Accept", "Appeal", and "EGADS!".
Reply would reply privately to the person who deleted it, Accept would just archive the message, Appeal would reply to me privately, and EGADS! would post the contents into a new message in the EGADS! board. The EGADS! button would only show up for a subset of the deletion-reasons so that it can't be used to repost a privacy invasion or threat, for example.
