https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33761

--- Comment #20 from John Du Hart <j...@compwhizii.net> 2012-01-19 14:29:36 UTC 
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(In reply to comment #18)
> (In reply to comment #17)
> > I'm not sure that would help much, since the offensive emails usually come 
> > from
> > disposable one-time addresses at Mailinator. So they are unlikely to appear
> > already in the blacklist, unless all Mailinator addresses are banned.
> 
> Even banning all mailinator addresses would be insufficient, since they have
> hundreds of alternate domains (I suppose we could ban all alternate domains.
> Not sure how we'd get a list of them all though), See my previous comment 11.

It's doable, at my last position managing a gaming forum we had a pretty
exhaustive list that covered all of them. It's possible to do.

(In reply to comment #19)
> If it uses regex, we could ban *.mailinator.com. Or is it the root domain that
> changes?

No, it's the domain that changes.

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