Bugzilla - an experiment in trackability

[Sean Kelly]

Don Clugston wrote:
> 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.

I simply game up on preventing spam a while back--a spam bot found my 
domain and started hitting evveryone on it simultaneously.  However, 
we've got Spamassassin and such installed to filter via procmail and I 
don't see more than one or two spam mails a week in my inbox.  Couple 
that with the Thunderbird filtering and that takes the number down to 
basically zero.  I'd suggest simply using gmail or another service that 
has capable spam filtering and not worry about it.  Though this 
obviously doesn't hold for work accounts (I've never put my work email 
online and I probably get 10 spam mails a day there).


Sean