[Foundation-l] Autocreated global accounts (was: [Wikitech-l] $wgCentralAuthAutoNew=true)

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On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Matthew Flaschen
<matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> Huib Laurens wrote:
>> So a vandal has to make one account en can spam on all wiki's? Is
>> there global blocking?
>
> Yes.  See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_blocking
>

Global blocking only works for IP addresses at this time (it was
designed specifically that way).

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Casey Brown
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