On 11/12/11 13:43, Thomas Morton wrote:

Hey All,

There's a somewhat urgent issue being discussed on English Wikipedia at the moment relating to offensive emails from a certain domain.

Discussion is here.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Email_abuse_from_Mailinator_address

I wonder if any ops people are able to quickly address this, perhaps by blacklisting a domain (or specific email addresses) server side. Obviously harassment of editors is a big problem so I 'm going for a pro-active "find someone to fix it" approach :)

If not, anyone have suggestions?

Tom

It's easy for a system administrator to find out all the accounts with that email address and block them. We could also block that domain from address verification, too.

I'm not friend of limiting access to the tools (eg. "please wait 1 hour for sending another mail"), but it could raise a notice in the logs if it surpasses some threshold.