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Don't require e-mail addresses for this site!
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Author: hcsdes5migow5sh

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Don't require e-mail addresses for this site! It can cause people to receive unwanted spam, and it doesn't improve security. People can bypass it simply by using one of the numerous temporary e-mail address generators on the web.

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Severity: critical

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bz11898

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 9:55 PM
• bzimport added a project: Wikimedia-Bugzilla.
• bzimport set Reference to bz11898.
• bzimport created this task.Nov 7 2007, 10:08 PM
• bzimport added a comment.Nov 7 2007, 10:12 PM

robert wrote:

E-mail address are obfuscated so spam is a non-issue. Even if people can use temporary e-mail address generators it still requires some effort on their part stopping spam bots creating millions of bogus accounts.

• brooke added a comment.Jul 13 2011, 1:14 AM
  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 148 ***
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