Re: Lots of (easily recognisible) spam sent to the BTS today
On Thu, 02 Nov 2006, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> a) for mails to -close or to control@b.d.o to prevent a
> spammer/malicious person from closing all the bugs or mangling
> with the BTS in such a way that would take us some effort to
> recover
There's no reason to restrict control; spam sent there doesn't really
do anything at all. Indeed, to this point, we have only occasionally
had problems with control, generally of the BTS ping-pong variety
which tends to be best dealt with with a bit of social engineering.
Messages to -close are slightly more annoying; we could increase the
default score of messages to control, and rely on the negative scoring
rules to keep legitimate messages.... but that would, again, result in
more false positives. I (and AFAIK, the rest of the BTS admins) are
rather wary of gratitously increasing the numbers of false positives.
[And yes, messages sent by scripts or people who haven't learned to
jump through the right hoops are clearly false positives.]
Don Armstrong
--
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very
easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over
expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without
discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the
syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors
are an abundant source of gain.
-- Anatole France
http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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