[Python-Dev] Summary of Tracker Issues (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun May 20 07:14:46 CEST 2007

Do we know how these spam comments entered the system?

Through the web site. Submission through email is not an issue: you need to use a registered email address, and those are hard to guess.

And has there been any spam submitted since that point?

One day after the tracker was renamed to bugs.python.org, there were 10 spam submissions, and new spam was entered at a high rate. We then added some anti-spam measures, and now new spam is added very infrequently.

The real problem now is that people panic when they see spam in the tracker, demanding all kinds of immediate action, and wondering what bastards let the spam in in the first place.

Regards, Martin

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