[WikiEN-l] Email confirmation - IMPORTANT

Zzyzx11 at Wikipedia zzyzx11 at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 2 04:55:40 UTC 2006


From: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29&diff=41813660&oldid=41810143

>For some lovely reason our new mail server has been blacklisted by SpamCop,
>allegedly for sending mail to spamtrap addresses. (They provide no details 
>by
>policy, of course, so there's no way to verify it.)

>Since there's a tiny possibility that the user-to-user email feature 
>actually could be
>abused, I've gone ahead and enabled the e-mail confirmation requirement for 
>using
>email features. This is a bit annoying for the moment since you have to do 
>it
>separately on each wiki.

>I've disputed the listing, so hopefully we'll get it removed soonish and 
>those who
>aren't getting email will, uh, start getting it again. --Brion 22:42, 1 
>March 2006 (UTC)

What this means is that everyone will have to go to 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Confirmemail
If you don't, you will not receive Wikipedia email.

Zzyzx11 at en.wikipedia.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zzyzx11
zzyzx11 at hotmail.com

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