Am Freitag, 20. Oktober 2006 19:25 schrieb Sherool:
Could we please get the feature eluded to here:
<http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5370> turned on for the
English Wikipedia (and probably the rest of the projects too)? At least
one vandal seems to have spesialised in spamming people with passwod
reminders (he must have a bot), and growing number of people have been
complaining about it. After replying to some threads about it on the admin
noticeboard on enWiki I seem to have incured the "wrath" of this
individual as well since I found 112 password reminders in my mailbox
today.
Sure they are easy to filter out, but we can't let spammers have free
reign like this. If there is such a "throttle" feature it needs to be
activated ASAP (how many times a day does the average user forget his
password?). If nothing else all these mails are a unnessesary strain on
our mail system. Pluss some users have "threatened" to report it to
SpamCop and such, and we don't want our mailserver blacklisted now do we?
wouldn't the whole problem be avoided it the user had to fill in his
e-mail-address (which he hopefully hasn't forgot...) when asking for the
password reminding email?
greetz
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