But if the ip is blocked, and *do* have a Wikpedia account, may want a password
reset to get his password, login and edit his user talk.

freakofnurture wrote:

If an innocent user experiences both collateral damage and amnesia at the same
time, he could move to another computer to make that request, provided he
doesn't get struck by lightning and eaten by a shark along the way.

robchur wrote:

Another option might be to throw up a captcha...

freakofnurture wrote:

or a throttle limit...

freakofnurture wrote:

or both...

dwen92 wrote:

We shoulnd't block _all_ blocked IPs from requesting pass's, but there should be someway the dev's can block certain
IP's.
Not all IPs abuse the Password Reset.. Only some like en:69.50.208.4, also see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AN/I#Email

windyaso-wp wrote:

It's as simple as limiting password requests to five an hour or
something...this would certainly cut down on the worst of the abuse.

freakofnurture wrote:

(In reply to comment #6)

We shoulnd't block _all_ blocked IPs from requesting pass's, but there should be

someway the dev's can block certain

IP's.
Not all IPs abuse the Password Reset.. Only some like en:69.50.208.4, also see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AN/I#Email

Perhaps this would be best as an extra checkbox on the [[Special:Blockip]] form,
then. --user:freakofnurture

dwen92 wrote:

(In reply to comment #8)

We shoulnd't block _all_ blocked IPs from requesting pass's, but there should be

someway the dev's can block certain

IP's.
Not all IPs abuse the Password Reset.. Only some like en:69.50.208.4, also see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AN/I#Email

Perhaps this would be best as an extra checkbox on the [[Special:Blockip]] form,
then. --user:freakofnurture

Definetly.
-D
[[User:Deon555]]

aranda1cards wrote:

well I lost my password for good after placing the request password email to my
autodelete spam filter after getting over 500 of those in one day, almost 1,000
for the week by en:69.50.208.4 this bug should be fixed and fast before it
happens to anyone else

jorge,

en:Jaranda

klofstrom wrote:

Same IP mailbombed me. Please fix this. -- Zora

psychonaut wrote:

See also Bug 7078, which proposes a throttle on password requests. This would
be easiest to implement as the code is already there; the throttle value just
needs to be set for Wikipedia.

• Bug 7639 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Fixed in r17147.