Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:39:11 +1100 | From | Stuart Young <> | Subject | Re: Wanted: Volunteer to code a Patchbot |
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At 02:26 AM 31/01/02 +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: >On January 31, 2002 01:49 am, Stuart Young wrote: > > Possibly, but then it'll reply to the spammer and you'll get bounces left > > and right. Perhaps it's a simple case that the patcher submitting will > have > > to have registered the email address before submitting their patch. Only > > needs to be done once (not every time a patch is submitted, that's mad!), > > and weeds out the noise. > >Yes, that's a point for discussion. Certainly, a patchbot list like >patches-2.5-maintainer should require registration, and in fact, registration >for this list will be by invitation. It's not so clear what the policy >should be on the patches-2.5 list. Openness is a nice thing to be able to >boast about. Maybe the thing to do is try it open, and see how it works out.
True. But if it comes to it, a once off authentication to 'allow' an e-mail address weeds out a hell of a lot of spambots.
>We also have to worry about malicious spamming of the patch list. I've heard >this happened to kuro5hin's story submission queue - there is no accounting >for all the forms of insect life out there.
Malicious spamming will happen no matter what you do, unless you vet the subscriptions manually.
Stuart Young - sgy@amc.com.au (aka Cefiar) - cefiar1@optushome.com.au
[All opinions expressed in the above message are my] [own and not necessarily the views of my employer..]
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