https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45022
--- Comment #4 from Nemo <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #3) > Gods, no. > > From a user perspective this makes no sense save for on very inactive wikis > that one seldom actually visits, as otherwise such email notifications wind > up > nothing more than pointless spam. If we had a sane discussion system, setting > email notifications as default for messages might make sense, but we dont. This is already covered in the other bug, there's no doubt that people installing MediaWiki want it. > From an ops standpoint, this is a very good way to overwhelm a mailserver for > no good reason, and from what I recall did exactly that when previously > turned > on by accident. Where? MediaWiki emails are plain text, about 2 KB... The additional traffic for all such notifications when enabled on WMF cluster was not even visible in the graphs. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
