From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29145 invoked by alias); 10 Aug 2016 11:46:10 -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 29024 invoked by uid 48); 10 Aug 2016 11:45:57 -0000 From: "manu at gcc dot gnu.org" To: overseers@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug web/72856] Trottle bug creation for newly created accounts (to limit spam) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 11:46:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: gcc X-Bugzilla-Component: web X-Bugzilla-Version: unknown X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: enhancement X-Bugzilla-Who: manu at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Status: ASSIGNED X-Bugzilla-Resolution: X-Bugzilla-Priority: P3 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: LpSolit at netscape dot net X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: cc Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bugzilla-URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2016-q3/txt/msg00040.txt.bz2 https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D72856 Manuel L=C3=B3pez-Ib=C3=A1=C3=B1ez changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |manu at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #3 from Manuel L=C3=B3pez-Ib=C3=A1=C3=B1ez --- (In reply to Fr=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric Buclin from comment #0) > GCC Bugzilla suffered vandalism again between July 25 and 27. 709 spam bu= gs > have been filed during this 48 hours window. 103 different email addresses > have been used to avoid being blocked too quickly. This gives a ratio on > average of 7 spam per account. I wonder about the effort required to do such a thing. Some of those emails seem fake, is there some kind of confirmation email for newly created accou= nts? Limiting the number of bug reports per new account seems a good measure, but also easily circumvented as long as someone can create as many new users as they wish and each user stays below the limit. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.