On 2025-08-08 08:03:08 +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: > Yes, from time to time, spammers harvest -done debbugs email > addresses and this interferes with the proper operation of the > bug tracker; I agree this is mighty annoying. At the end of > each bug entry, there is a paragraph: > > >> Send a report that this bug log contains spam[1]. > > allowing reporting through the web interface.
I don't think I should download and scan one million web pages to find which ones are affected by this spammer. Some Debian admin can probably do better with some logs. > I guess it is > also possible to just use the link [1] and replace the NNNNNNN > by the actual bug number for a shortcut. I don't know what > further processing goes after that, but I thought I would > advertise this, as I believe it is a well hidden functionality. I used that in the past, hoping that spam would be removed, but IIRC, nothing was done. Here, the goal is essentially to reopen the wrongly closed bugs. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
