Re: Lots of (easily recognisible) spam sent to the BTS today
On Sun, 05 Nov 2006, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 03:43:06PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I'm afraid our BTS would have little resilience if it was targeted
> by some Debian-hater due, precisely, to it's openness.
If that ever becomes a problem, we can deal with it then. Until that
point, needlessly restricting it will just get in the way of
legitimate users.
Any action taken by any person on the BTS can be reversed; most in
rather trivially automatable ways.
Don Armstrong
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