[sane-devel] SPAM via SANE-Bugs

[m. allan noah]

On 4/19/07, Mattias Ellert <mattias.ellert at tsl.uu.se> wrote:
> 19 apr 2007 kl. 08.39 skrev Gerhard Jaeger:
>
> > On Mittwoch, 18. April 2007, m. allan noah wrote:
> >> then users cannot report bugs without having an alioth account?
> >>
> > Hmmm, nope - there should be some kind of guest account or
> > something like "use this temporary code" to submit a bug
> > report. something that could not easily misused by spam-bots.
> >
> > - Gerhard
>
> Any anonymous postings should be stopped ASAP. At the moment I get
> about 10 spams a day from the SANE bug tracker. Even bugs that have
> been marked "deleted" can apparently be used as spam relays. And
> there seems to be no way to not get mails from bugs you have posted
> yourself.
>

well, i think we are going to have to get some help here, on of our
project admins on alioth will have to change to disallow anonymous
posting. henning?

allan
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