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Re: Bug#75853: TONER CARTRIDGES



Josip Rodin wrote:
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 07:18:52AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:

I sent a mail to some mailinglist a couple of weeks ago. I got back
a autoreply from one of it's member saying:

----- s n i p -----
Your e-mail message with the subject of "Re: Confusing DNS problems (urgent)."
is being held because this is the first time you write to me.
(at least since 06/04/02)

To release your message for delivery and to ensure
that you are not a spam robot :-), please simply
reply to this message.


Very easy, simple, non-abusive and very friendly! Don't know if this
is free or not, but the idea is good!


Personally I think it would majorly suck... email's used because it's
simple and efficient, these things OTOH are annoying and time-wasting,
which is actually quite like spam.

Also, it's not quite a panacea. Consider Klez impersonating someone whose address is "verified".

What about a web form, pointed to by bugs.debian.org? That would provide an alternative to the reportbug- and E-mail client-challenged. Heck, sometimes folks are just away from their Debian systems and mail clients.

I'd be happy to write the form and script (in Perl), if someone will publish it for me.

With this in place, just require well-formed reports.  No more spam.

Honestly, isn't it fair for any automated system, like the BTS, to require some degree of well-formed input? I was surprised when I found out it didn't!




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