Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Henderson wrote:

> 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).

Yep. I run my own news-server, but otherwise exactly the same. 

> 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).

I'm not too worried about spam - spam is a fact of life, but if the
novell/bugzilla registration process uses a decent CAPTCHA, much can be
eliminated right then and there. 



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Per Jessen, Zürich (14.8°C)

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