On 10/22/06, Titoxd@Wikimedia titoxd.wikimedia@gmail.com wrote:
Agreed. Also, I think it is just a matter of time before Joe Random User gets really annoyed about this, and reports us to a spam blacklist.
Agreed. IIRC the OTRS server already once got caught in a (Spamcop?) blacklist which caused problems with email delivery to servers which rely on this blacklist (i.e. do not accept mails from blacklisted sources). So this is something we really need to avoid. Michael
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Moin,
On Saturday 21 October 2006 14:36, Timwi wrote:
Sherool wrote:
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.
... You *do* realise, though, that he does it primarily *because* people get upset about it?
Sure they are easy to filter out, but we can't let spammers have free reign like this.
If you'd filter them out and not make a peep about it, he'd lose interest quickly.
This dos not work, the emails are still generated, people are still upset etc.
By your line of reasoning vandals would go away if everyone would just ignore them.
There really is now reason to allow more then X password reminders being sent per day. Likewise, blocked IPs shouldn't be able to do this at all.
Best wishes,
Tels
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