https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58237

--- Comment #3 from Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) <legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> 
> Wow, great catch!
> 
> I'm curious whether any change should be made in MassMessage.

We could potentially make the account ipblock-exempt regardless of the wiki's
settings (enwiki gives ipblock-exempt to the bot group, ruwiki doesn't)

> Or perhaps we
> should simply update the documentation (e.g., [[m:MassMessage]] &&
> [[mw:Help:Extension:MassMessage]]) to note that blocking localhost will cause
> this issue and then mark this bug as resolved/invalid.

That would also work. Wikis really shouldn't be blocking 127.0.0.1 FWIW, it's
just going to cause weird problems like this one.

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