Messages in this thread | | | From | "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <> | Date | Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:48:14 +0200 | Subject | Re: Bugzilla spam |
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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/
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