[WikiEN-l] Email confirmation - IMPORTANT

[XaosFluX]

I've added a note regarding this to [[MediaWiki:Watchdetails]].

xaosflux

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guettarda" <guettarda at gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Email confirmation - IMPORTANT


> 1. Any chance this could make its way to the top of people's watchlists or
> something, like the voting thing did?
>
> 2. Any idea whether this will affect the ability of people who don't use
> spamcop to get email?
>
> On 3/1/06, Zzyzx11 at Wikipedia <zzyzx11 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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