https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21457
--- Comment #9 from Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> 2009-11-14 17:00:17 UTC --- Note: when I sunddely started receiving emails because of the activation of Lqt and its default behavior, I have received, in just three days, several thousands of emails ! although I do understand that this was caused by a bug, I did not read all of them (in fact I have just read one to see from where they came, and then I deleted them all). But other users will not have had the same "patience" and will have jsut signaled these emails as spam (which they really were), causing MediaWiki sites to be blacklisted in various places across the net. Don't blame those that have blacklisted Wikimedia sites or caused these sites to be blacklisted (due to user complains). Only Wikimedia is fully responsible of this effect. Wikimedia sites are now so large on the net that such bug cannot have them being considered minor. This is really a very critical issue to solve immediately (even if this means that Lqt must be disabled completely on all WMF sites, until is is fixed properly). The WMF should have noticed by itself that this activation had considerably increased the number of emails sent from its servers, and should have pressed the "Emergency Red button" to block ALL emails tentatively sent by the Lqt extension (and if there's still no such "Red button", consider implementing it and implementing also a live statistics monitoring for the volume of emails sent by WMF servers ; in addition, if any extension is autorized to send emails, these emails MUST be traced internally, with specific authorization keys, one for each extension on each wiki, so that they can be blocked/filtered selectively, if any bug occurs in one of the extensions using this capability). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
