Re: Reporting Spam in Debian Bugs (and geogebra 4.2+ is non-free btw)?
On Sun 17 Nov 2019 at 21:36:11 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote:
> Brian writes:
>
> > On Sun 17 Nov 2019 at 21:01:16 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > Verify report for bug 692728
> > > Yes, report that bug 692728 has spam
> > >
> > > Now I am not sure (maybe it's a language thing): Is it OK to continue
> > > eventhough most of the bug is quite important discussion and only the last
> > > message is spam? Will that work as intended (only removing the last
> > > message)
> > > when I continue on that page?
> >
> > Continue with reporting the spam message. It does not remove the bug
> > record. You will not bring the BTS to its knees by doing this.
> >
> > In fact, it does not remove the spam. That has to be done by hand by
> > a user who is involved in spam removal.
>
> [...]
>
> Thank you very much for the clarification. I proceeded with reporting the
> spam and it now says:
>
> Report accepted
> Thank you for reporting that this bug log contains spam. These reports are
> reviewed regularly and used to clean the bug logs and train the spam
> filters.
>
> Which makes it perfectly clear for me :)
Reviewing is the issue. It needs a real person to read the mail, make
a judgement and do it. Half-a-dozen dedicated volunteers would probably
be enough to keep the BTS clean of spam.
--
Brian.
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