Re: Remove or obfuscate spam in the *-bugs mailing lists?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 10:44:41PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>On Tue, 9 Sep 2014, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> But, it really bugs me that some evil dudes could try to subvert our
>> system so I'd like to eliminate any remaining benefit they could see
>> from sending spam here.
>
>Agreed. :-)
>
>> Thanks.  Which option do you prefer: Deleting or keeping munged,
>> content-free copies around?  The only reason that I could see for the
>> latter is that existing url references to the archives would continue to
>> work.  But, it's difficult to see any valid reason for a reference to
>> bugzilla spam.
>
>Would other, non-spam mails change their URLs as well?  If that's
>the case, munging might be better.  Otherwise I'd be in favor of
>simply yanking the crap.  Which seems to be your preference as well.

No, the mail would just disappear from the archive, leaving everything
else intact.  One other benefit with deletion is that since I'll be
using the mail archiver to delete it I won't have to worry about locking
the archives while I'm doing this.  That happens automatically.

So, it looks like I will be going with deletion.

If this seems to be reliable, I'll add a cron job to delete spam from
the archives automatically from now on.

cgf