https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7518

Rich Farmbrough <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Rich Farmbrough <[email protected]> 2011-12-12 
22:58:35 UTC ---
Yes, but if the throttle is fairly smart it can still be effective. Typically
we are looking at accounts that have never sent an email sending many (>10)
identical
emails, often to the same user.  While I suppose a successful bureaucrat
candidate might receive several messages just saying "Congratulations", in
general they will be from different users over a period of days.  So a day-zero
(i.e. the first time an account sends email) throttle of half a dozen emails
seems a fairly good starting point.  That is only 36 per IP per day, and the IP
would be blocked by day two if it were static, and its socks hoovered up.  

Smartness can be added if someone is a known target, say they can only receive
1 per day per sender.  After mail number 1 genuine people can use standard
email.

We can store an anonymous hash of the message to cut down on identical
spammage/mailbombs.

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