On Mon October 30 2006 16:46, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: <...> > However, confirming each spam I have > in my mailbox vs. the web interface is time consuming and slightly > frustating when you find that the spam had no opportunity to get in > (the bug was archived) or it was already removed (bad).
How time consuming it is depends on the UI. I checked out and reported 70+ spam messages sent to packages (via [EMAIL PROTECTED]) handled by [EMAIL PROTECTED] a couple days ago (two batches) fairly quickly by using KDE's "run command" applet (averaging 8 keystrokes, 2 mouse movements, and two clicks, per message.) > PS: If abuse of that (e-mail) interface was of concern it could be > implemented so as to only consider GPG/PGP signed mail from DDs (I > don't see that the web interface takes any precaution against being > abused, from what I can tell, but a e-mail gateway is slightly more > easier to abuse) I have also been doing some bug cleaning in dselect recently (30+ bugs closed or recalssified, only one which I ended up reopening), something which would not be possible without pestering DD's if signed messages were required. I have yet to see a spam message sent to the BTS which used a "Package:" pseudoheader, so that should work to eliminate BTS spam without preventing non-DD's helping out. - Bruce
