Re: Lots of (easily recognisible) spam sent to the BTS today
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:32:09PM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote:
> On Tue October 31 2006 21:15, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> > Bruce Sass wrote:
> > > I have yet to see a spam message sent to the BTS which used a
> > > "Package:" pseudoheader, so that should work to eliminate BTS spam
> > > without preventing non-DD's helping out.
> >
> > OTOH, a /lot/ of legitimate mail is sent to the BTS w/o a Package:
> > pseudo-header (think: pretty much anything to
> > nnnnnn@bugs.debian.org). So this isn't really a solution.
>
> I don't think that disqualifies it as a solution, it just means there
> would be a transition period while users learn that it is a required
> part of messages sent to the BTS.
It isn't currently a requirement (or indeed any use at all), so
introducing a requirement just to compat spam does not seem like a good
solution.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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