Re: Wiki registration notifications

From: Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 17:55:00 +0000
Subject: Re: Wiki registration notifications
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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

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