Re: Bug#900421: improve "wiki account creation delayed" message
On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 08:28:41PM +0000, Brian Potkin wrote:
>On Sun 27 Jan 2019 at 17:56:34 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 04:22:41PM -0800, Tassia Camoes Araujo wrote:
>> >Hi folks,
>> >
>> >I would add to the issue the portion of the message that says "from some
>> >people". When we got that yesterday creating Josh's account (Josh in
>> >CC), we found it a bit weird (why from me? what is wrong about me?).
>> >
>> >So I suggest your clearly state that the anti-spam has blocked the
>> >account creation, so it clearly shows it is not personal, just computer
>> >rules (spammy heuristics as described by pabs on IRC).
>> >
>> >Thanks for taking care of it!
>>
>> Updated to say
>>
>> "Automatic account creation disabled to stop spammers signing
>> up. Please contact $admin_private and describe what you want to do in
>> the wiki."
>>
>> How does that sound?
>
>If I saw "$admin_private" in an email, I wouldn't have a clue what it
>meant.
Sorry, forgot to substitute that. It comes from a perl script, where
it's expanded to "wiki@debian.org".
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