Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark-bugs mailing list archive shutting down
It looks like they archive via a mail subscription (the correct way) as
opposed to scraping our site (the bad and incorrect way) so they should
be unaffected.
On 12/28/16 12:50 AM, Alexis La Goutte wrote:
> Hi Gerald,
>
> I will be also impact mail-archive ? (
> http://www.mail-archive.com/wireshark-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/info.html )
> because i looking direclty on web interface (and not subscribe to the
> mailing...)
>
> Cheers
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
> Traditionally, Bugzilla hasn't had very strong antispam measures.
> This has become a major issue for some public installations. For
> example, the Eclipse project now requires explicit permission for
> new users to open bugs:
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1306750
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1306750>
>
> We've been getting spam on bugs.wireshark.org
> <http://bugs.wireshark.org> but fortunately for us the volume is
> still low and it's easy enough to just set the "private" flag on the
> offending bugs. However, we have a separate self-inflicted issue. We
> log bug activity via the wireshark-bugs mailing list and those
> messages are archived, which effectively means we provide cheap and
> easy spam hosting at a popular web address. Cleaning up these
> messages is an inconvenient and manual process.
>
> As a result I'm disabling the archive feature on the wireshark-bugs
> mailing list this upcoming Saturday, December 31. The mailing list
> itself will still be up and running and old archived messages will
> still be available, but new messages will not be archived after that
> date.
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