Bugzilla spam

Bugzilla spam

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Hello Konstantin,

The man-pages Bugzilla component (as well as other components on
Bugzilla by the look of things) is receiving vast quantities of spam.
What can be done about this? (Just marking the bugs private and
closing isn't workable. There's just too many bugs coming in...).

Thanks

Michael


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/

Re: Bugzilla spam

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

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On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 08:28:18PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Hello Konstantin,
> 
> The man-pages Bugzilla component (as well as other components on
> Bugzilla by the look of things) is receiving vast quantities of spam.
> What can be done about this? (Just marking the bugs private and
> closing isn't workable. There's just too many bugs coming in...).

Not much can be done. :( Bugzilla's default spam-fighting capabilities
are abysmal -- I can't even delete any accounts without installing
multiple extensions. I'm actively investigating what we can do to
improve the situation and will follow up shortly.

Regards,
-- 
Konstantin Ryabitsev
Linux Foundation Collab Projects
Montréal, Québec

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Re: Bugzilla spam

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Hello Konstantin,

On 13 July 2016 at 20:37, Konstantin Ryabitsev <mricon@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 08:28:18PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> Hello Konstantin,
>>
>> The man-pages Bugzilla component (as well as other components on
>> Bugzilla by the look of things) is receiving vast quantities of spam.
>> What can be done about this? (Just marking the bugs private and
>> closing isn't workable. There's just too many bugs coming in...).
>
> Not much can be done. :( Bugzilla's default spam-fighting capabilities
> are abysmal -- I can't even delete any accounts without installing
> multiple extensions. I'm actively investigating what we can do to
> improve the situation and will follow up shortly.

Okay, thanks. In the meantime, is it possible for you to lock the
man-pages component so that no further bug reports can be made via
that component?

Thanks,

Michael

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/

Re: Bugzilla spam

[ellis]

> Okay, thanks. In the meantime, is it possible for you to lock the
> man-pages component so that no further bug reports can be made via
> that component?

It's not just the man-pages component. I'm seeing the same spam starting
up on backports.