Re: Wiki registration notifications
| From: | Christoph Becker | Date: | Thu, 19 Mar 2015 17:55:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Wiki registration notifications | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.webmaster |
| Request: | Send a blank email to php-webmaster+get-20898@lists.php.net to get a copy of this message | ||
Hannes Magnusson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:58 AM, Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> 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).
>>
>> 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.
Thanks for the explanation. I suggest to remove the respective notice
from the registration page, then, to avoid potential confusion. Any
objections?
--
Christoph M. Becker