On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:28:22AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 02:35:28PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote: > > > It already exists. The problem is that *everyone* can control bugs in the BTS. Spammers unintentionally closing bugs is not the problem, it's just one of the possible symptoms. > > No, the problem is that someone wants to change this behavior. > What the fuck? Why does being a DD or a bug submitter mean that you must be > continually bombarded with spam, because Debian fails to take the least of > precautions or spam prevention for fear of inconveniencing a few people? What about your own spam precautions? Debian _does_ take the least of spam precautions. From memory, we have spamassassin against debbugs, although as mentioned earlier, not crossassassin... yet. > I'm getting so much spam through my debian account that I'm already > considering closing it down. We must now tolerate spammers closing bugs? We don't tolerate it, we put up with it as a neccessary evil to allow free and easy access to the BTS. (For specific values of 'we' obviously) > There are a lot of large projects, including the mozilla project, that > require addresses to be registered with a password just to submit a bug. > This is the model we should be moving toward. The current situation is > totally unacceptable. And I'm sure they miss out on bugs (mine, for example) where the finder doesn't feel the need for _another_ username/password combo just to submit a single bug. For larger projects such as Mozilla, they can afford to lose those bugs, someone else will find 'em. For source-forge hosted projects, one user/pass covers many many projects, and is useful to have. For Debian, it strikes me as a pain to have a user/password BTS system, or anything that will prevent me running reportbug from whatever random Debian machine I happen to have hit the bug from. A pseudo-header to match the email address for controlling bugs, I guess that's acceptable to me. (I usually use control@b.d.o anyway) However, for _submitting_ bugs, a missing Packages: header will bring SPAM to the eyes of the debbugs maintainers quickly anyway, I expect. Why make it _hard_ to report bugs? -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 6th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Anu.edu.au "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from I wonder?" -- Capt. Jack Sparrow, "Pirates of the Caribbean" This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. -----------------------------------------------------------
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