https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52480
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Bug ID: 52480
Summary: Disallow mail registration by abused addresses
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Email
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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There are users that repeatedly send e-mails with libel, aggressive messages
and alike. All they have to do to keep sending them is creating another user
and register the same mail. Some of them do it in a project and is blocked.
Then they keep doing it from other projects until they are locked.
It should be possible to disallow some mail addresses to be registered when
they have a clear pattern of abuse by vandal accounts. For instance, I have
received about 20 mails from the same person [1], all from same address and
with libel. When they are sent to me, it is not that big deal, but I have
already seen they being sent to several others after checkusering. If somebody
start sending it to unexperienced accounts, it may become a kind of silent
vandalism as these accounts may not know what to do to stop it.
That may not stop them, but at least it won't be that easy to keep abusing it.
[1] -
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoria:!Fantoches_de_Leonardo_Pereira_Ara%C3%BAjo
Thanks,
--Teles
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usu%C3%A1rio:Teles
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