https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19246
Web browser: Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x
Summary: IP hardblock should prevent e-mails from logged in
accounts
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: HP
OS/Version: Windows XP
Status: NEW
Severity: major
Priority: Normal
Component: Blocking
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
The "Prevent user from sending e-mail" feature was recently added to the IP
block interface on the English Wikipedia. This feature was installed as a
result of perpetual mass e-mail spam abuse by multiple banned users. However,
this feature has not stopped these banned users from continuing their mass
e-mail attacks while logged in, despite the fact that the IP may have already
been hardblocked with the "Prevent user from sending e-mail" setting.
An example:
I blocked the open proxy IP range 88.191.0.0/16 at 20:49, 28 May 2009 for 5
years with the settings "account creation blocked, autoblock disabled, e-mail
blocked".
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User%3A88.191.0.0%2F16
On 13 June 2009, I ran a CheckUser on the IP range and discovered that the
banned users' sockpuppets "Drill you like an ocean" and "YAHOO!Hooligan" had
sent a few dozen e-mails from that IP range!
I request that this issue be fixed, so that IP blocks with the "prevent user
from sending e-mail" setting can also prevent logged in editors from also
sending e-mails. These IP blocks are almost exclusively used to deal with
banned editors on open proxies, so there should be little to no collateral
damage.
Thanks!
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