From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>,
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Spammers are now closing bugs
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:27:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy6tvv1uh.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <db65a1cd0904200348h48c3c3w20531f376d16be7d@mail.gmail.com> (Samuel Bronson's message of "Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:48:28 -0400")
>> There is a very simple solution. Restrict bug closure and other
>> administrative tasks to people on a list of emacs contributors and the
>> original submitter. It is not a perfect solution, but it should deal with
>> the problem of random spammers.
> Another possibility would involve a confirmation code -- but that
> would be kind of a pain for regular contributors, so should probably
> be used as an additional validation method, not the only one.
The incoming messages should be filtered the same way that messages to
emacs-devel get filtered (i.e. they need to be moderated).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-20 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-19 19:20 Spammers are now closing bugs Glenn Morris
2009-04-19 19:28 ` Sven Joachim
2009-04-19 23:41 ` Jason Rumney
2009-04-20 10:48 ` Samuel Bronson
2009-04-20 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-04-20 18:18 ` Glenn Morris
2009-04-20 21:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-04 21:09 ` Glenn Morris
2009-05-05 3:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-04-21 7:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-04-21 17:16 ` Glenn Morris
2009-04-22 3:14 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-04-22 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-20 18:14 ` Glenn Morris
2009-04-20 18:30 ` Sven Joachim
2009-04-20 18:40 ` Glenn Morris
2009-04-21 3:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-04-21 3:31 ` Glenn Morris
2009-04-21 5:47 ` Miles Bader
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