From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 40450 invoked by alias); 25 May 2017 16:41:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 40431 invoked by uid 89); 25 May 2017 16:41:04 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_RED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=grant, zap, spammers, filing X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 25 May 2017 16:41:02 +0000 Received: from nat-ies.mentorg.com ([192.94.31.2] helo=SVR-IES-MBX-04.mgc.mentorg.com) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1dDvou-0001s1-C5 from joseph_myers@mentor.com ; Thu, 25 May 2017 09:41:04 -0700 Received: from digraph.polyomino.org.uk (137.202.0.87) by SVR-IES-MBX-04.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.4) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1210.3; Thu, 25 May 2017 17:41:01 +0100 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dDvom-00010i-O3; Thu, 25 May 2017 16:40:56 +0000 Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 16:41:00 -0000 From: Joseph Myers To: Carlos O'Donell CC: David Edelsohn , Overseers Subject: Re: GCC Bugzilla accounts In-Reply-To: <1f9b4a90-04ad-d0c8-cb2f-13ed34ce96f2@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <1f9b4a90-04ad-d0c8-cb2f-13ed34ce96f2@redhat.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-ClientProxiedBy: svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) To SVR-IES-MBX-04.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.4) X-SW-Source: 2017-q2/txt/msg00084.txt.bz2 On Thu, 25 May 2017, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > Instead there we allow users to create all of their own accounts, but by > default you don't get editbugs. You have to have someone grant you editbugs, > and that can be done by anyone else who previously had editbugs, so you can > just email the list and someone will quickly bless you. > > Is the account creation still an anti-spam tactic? > > I think it's a terrible one, the editbugs removal seems to have worked much > better. Now spammers cant change any existing bugs. They can still file > new bugs, which we can zap entirely. Spammers were filing new spam bugs about as fast as contrib/mark_spam.py could mark them as spam. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com