I understand what you are saying. However, I need to send surveys for doing the research. How should I get the permission? I have toolserver account stating the purpose of the project. Can I write a bot/batchprocess through toolserver? Right now, I am only testing with 5 users I created.<div>

<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div>Prabha <div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Max Semenik <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:maxsem.wiki@gmail.com" target="_blank">maxsem.wiki@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The answer is usually &quot;don&#39;t send this stuff at all&quot;.<br>
<br>
Do you realise that to run this tool, you need a permission from the<br>
community, otherwise you&#39;ll end up blocked?<br>
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On 08.04.2013, 10:20 Prabhavathi wrote:<br>
<br>
&gt; Hi,<br>
<br>
&gt; I am working on an UC Berkeley research project to analyze<br>
&gt; wikipedia users&#39; behaviour. As a part of the project, I am<br>
&gt; developing an application which sends a survey to a random sample of<br>
&gt; recent users. I am using mwclient code to send emails though API.<br>
&gt; After testing around 3-4 times, the email tokens are not getting<br>
&gt; generated anymore. I tried to send mails from different login user. It still gives the same error.<br>
<br>
&gt; When I tried to send email from website<br>
&gt; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser</a>. It says,&quot; As an<br>
&gt; anti-spam measure, you are limited from performing this action too<br>
&gt; many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this<br>
&gt; limit. Please try again in a few minutes.&quot; It has been 8 hours since and I still get the same message.<br>
<br>
&gt; Does this mean, I exceeded limit for my  ip address or for that<br>
&gt; user? When I googled it, the rate limit seems to be about 1000 api<br>
&gt; calls. I have sent mails only to 3-4 test users for 5 times maximum.<br>
<br>
&gt; Which is a better way of sending emails to wikipedia users -<br>
&gt; Toolserver or wikimedia API? How should I handle sending bulk<br>
&gt; emails(about 100) without getting the &quot;throttled message&quot;?<br>
<br>
&gt; Please help.<br>
<br>
&gt; Thanks,<br>
&gt; Prabha<br>
&gt; UC Berkeley<br>
<br>
<br>
</div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br>
Best regards,<br>
  Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])<br>
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