Re: spam from bugs.debian.org

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 25-Apr-07, 11:45 (CDT), Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> wrote: 
> I have been dealing with gcc's bugzilla, KDE's bugs.kde.org, mozilla's bug
> tracking system etc., I never ever received any spam messages from these
> bug tracking systems. The spam emails seem to come only from BTS. May be we
> can learn from them as to what they are doing (mandatory registration?)
> better.

I'd guess that Bugzilla's mandatory registration is why. OTOH,
Bugzilla's mandatory is why I rarely report bugs for projects that use
Bugzilla. I don't think making it harder for users to report problems is
a good trade-off.

Steve

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