Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Jim Henderson <hendersj@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:11:01 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:

> > You lost me here - I'm not sure how the login requirement for the
> > forums relates to this.  Can you clarify what you mean?
>
> In my experience, the one thing that (sometimes/often) prevents such a
> bi-gating of fora<>ml is the requirement that a forum poster be
> subscribed to the mailing list.  However, when opensuse forum members
> are required to be registered for access to bugzilla, those registered
> could simply be allowed access by default, i.e. without having to
> actively subscribe. It would take a little fiddling, but nothing major.

Oh, I see - much as I had to subscribe to the lists as "nomail" when I 
signed up through gmane (which is how I access the MLs, I probably 
mentioned that before).

The challenge is that registering to post doesn't mean a spammer won't 
get through; in fact, a fair amount of the spam junk that hits the forums 
comes from people who have registered first and then post a handful of 
messages (there are a few different strategies those spammers use; we do 
ban them fairly quickly when they are reported, but we can't "un-send" 
the messages that would be forwarded to the ML in such a configuration).

Jim

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