Re: Spam in bugs database - automatic removal?
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:05:18PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Afraid not; as I said to somebody on IRC yesterday, it would be rather
> open to abuse. Just let us know and it will be dealt with promptly.
What? Setting a flag shown/not-shown? Or better yet, "spam: yes"? You
could flag messages as spam and, in order to keep that fuzzy warm
feeling of control inside owner@, let him decide what to do about such
messages, e.g. not showing them unless explicitly requested and/or
destroying them after a review. It has the advantage that people with
an actual use for the (information in the) BTS don't have to see/deal
with the garbage, the clean-up operation is nicely distributed among
maintainers and only the vacuum operation in left in the hands of
owner@, who can choose to perform it obsesively every 15 minutes, or
allot time for it once every so many days.
But all this is more or less pointless discussion, the problem here is
the underlying system, isn't it?
And besides that, kicking people out of the project for childish and
obstrusive behaviour should be an option. I assume that that's what
you mean by "abuse".
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Marcelo
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