I'm wondering if this could be a step to *something* bigger.
On 3/2/06, XaosFluX <xaosflux(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've added a note regarding this to [[MediaWiki:Watchdetails]].
xaosflux
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guettarda" <guettarda(a)gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)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(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> From:
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technic…
>
> >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(a)hotmail.com
>
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