Last modified: 2013-06-23 18:43:20 UTC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#User e-mail sending speed limit According to this discussion, there's no global (SUL) limit on the number of emails sent daily; so in order to prevent spam, canvassing and other mass disruptive email sending, please set a reasonable global hourly limit on the number of emails and email receivers. A good-faith user will rarely need to send, for example, 100 emails or email 100 users per hour.
Linking users across multiple wikis has to be done by CentralAuth, so I've moved this to the CentralAuth component. I don't think we have any global rate limiting system yet...
Link fix to discussion... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#User_e-mail_sending_speed_limit
This exists for password requests (bug 5370) only. I'm inclined to mark this as a dup of (wontfix) bug 7518 if you agree, and to discuss any potentially new arguments in bug 7518 instead. Would you be fine with that? See bug 7518 comment 8 for arguments against this request.
(In reply to comment #3) > This exists for password requests (bug 5370) only. > > I'm inclined to mark this as a dup of (wontfix) bug 7518 if you agree, and to > discuss any potentially new arguments in bug 7518 instead. Would you be fine > with that? > See bug 7518 comment 8 for arguments against this request. I don't think that is what this request is asking for. I've read both of those tickets, and neither apply. This is a request for a global rate limit on sending emails and has nothing to do with password requests.
Ah, thanks for clarifying!
(In reply to comment #5) > Ah, thanks for clarifying! That is what I do... :) Is Chris still in charge of this project? I would love to see a status update on SUL globalization project, which this ticket is waiting for completion of I would think. Thanks.
(In reply to comment #6) > (In reply to comment #5) > > Ah, thanks for clarifying! > > That is what I do... :) Is Chris still in charge of this project? I would > love to see a status update on SUL globalization project, which this ticket > is > waiting for completion of I would think. Thanks. I don't necessarily think this ticket would depend on SUL globalization. At worse the new rate limit just wouldn't apply to non-global accounts.
For some background, the limit is currently 20 emails/user for all wikis (that was changed from 100 a few months back). That counter is per wiki, so a user could send out emails from multiple wikis to the same user, and the target would receive more than 20/day. To move this to a global throttle isn't trivial, but we could do it. It would fall into the general Admin Tools work.
