Re: Wiki registration notifications

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote: > 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? fine with me -Hannes