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Bug 5799 - Ignore password reminder requests from blocked IP addresses


Summary:	Ignore password reminder requests from blocked IP addresses

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 5370

Product:	MediaWiki
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Nobody - You can work on this!

URL:	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi...
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Reported:	2006-05-02 22:24 UTC by Titoxd
Modified:	2006-05-12 18:26 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Titoxd 2006-05-02 22:24:03 UTC

As discussed on the English Wikipedia's Technical Vilage Pump
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Abuse_of_password_requests),
blocked anonymous users are spamming sysops by requesting password reminders, in
an effort to annoy the heck out of them. As there is no clear need for that
feature while blocked, they should not be able to do so.

Comment 1 Rob Church 2006-05-12 18:26:08 UTC

I'd be inclined to merge this with bug 5370 and use the rate limit. Using the
block would prevent legit users stuck behind AOL or some other stupid
arrangement from logging in to change preferences, etc.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5370 ***

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