Bugzilla - an experiment in trackability

[Don Clugston]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> The preferred way now to submit bugs is in the bugzilla, right Walter?
> (and only in the bugzilla, since it takes care automatically of 
> mirroring the report on the .bugs NG, right?)
> 
> How do we deal with spam now? For the bugzilla to work well I presume we 
> have to enter correct email addresses there, but, coupled with the NG 
> reporting (which, on top of that, is archived on the Web), we have a big 
> spam bait here.

Yup, that's a feature of bugzilla which is absolutely dreadful. And 
there doesn't seem to be any need whatsover for email addresses to 
appear anywhere. (I submitted a bug report about gcc, and they put my 
email on the bug report (it appears in XREF section). Three weeks later 
the spam flood began. Turned me off gcc for life).
Create a sacrificial email address for it, I reckon.

BTW, I reckon it's only a matter of time before 100% of spambots do
" ([a-zA-Z0-9_]+) at (([a-zA-Z0-9_]+) dot)+ (com|net|org)" regexp 
searches while looking for email addresses. I'm just amazed that people 
(including gcc compiler writers!) think that simple text replacement of 
@ and . will keep them safe.