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.

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