On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Jani Patokallio <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > If I'm reading http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:E-mail correctly, > there appear to be no (technical) restrictions preventing anybody > capable of creating a MediaWiki account from spamming every user with > a registered mailing address. Please tell me I'm wrong, and I'm not > going to wake up some day to an avalanche of Wikipedia e-mail about > Viagra and penis extensions in my inbox? > > I'm asking because I'm about to add an email operation to my > MediaWiki::Gateway Ruby gem, and would prefer that this not be used > for evil. > Sending e-mail to other users, regardless of whether it's done through the user interface or the API, is subject to $wgRateLimits['emailuser'] . Unfortunately, MediaWiki doesn't ship with sane defaults for these rate limits (they're set to unlimited), but Wikipedia has these limits set.
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