https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33761
Roland Rance <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #5 from Roland Rance <[email protected]> 2012-01-16 20:34:34 UTC --- This problem has also been raised at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive720#Being_spammed, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive717#Abusive_Emails_3:_Return_of_the_Abusive_Emails, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive731#Email_abuse_from_Mailinator_address, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive726#Mailinator_addresses and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive735#Mailinator_addresses_.28again.29. It is a serious problem, affecting many editors, some of whom have disabled email as a result. A vandal creates a new account, does not edit any pages with it, but uses it to send scores of abusive messages ( I have received about 750 over the past six months). The messages themselves are generally either gross racism, or graphic threats of maiming and death (sometimes both). The email addresses are disposable ones, usually from Mailinator. In most cases, the email address too is either a racist slur or a threat of death or maiming directed at an individual editor. Surely there is a way to prevent accounts which have not been auto-confirmed from sending scores of abusive emails at a time, using abusive email addresses. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
