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. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org