Re: Wiki registration notifications

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:58 AM, Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi, > > from the wiki registration page[1]: > > | Note: After submitting this registration form, your information (name > | and email) is sent to the publicly viewable internals mailing list, > | along with your IP address, hostname, and user agent (browser info). > > However, I have not yet seen any such message on internals@. I've had a > closer look, and apparently DokuWiki sends an email with an empty To > header and $conf['registernotify'] as Bcc. In the web-wiki repo > $conf['registernotify'] is 'webmaster@php.net', but that may well have > been changed on the life site. > > Anyhow, these notification emails are neither publicly visible on > internals@ nor on webmaster@. Does anybody know, why that is? > People complained about the magnitude of registration emails to this list. These emails don't really serve any purpose as these registrations don't mean anything other then someone is trying to spam us. If people want write access, they need to explicitly ask for it. -Hannes