Re: Reporting Spam in Debian Bugs (and geogebra 4.2+ is non-free btw)?
On 2019-11-17 20:48 +0000, Brian wrote:
> 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.
AFAICT the number of volunteers has been zero for many years. I have
reported dozens if not hundreds of spam-infested bugs, and never saw the
spam actually removed.
So reporting a bug as spam does not do any harm, but it is a minor waste
of time in my experience.
Cheers,
Sven
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