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On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 08:28:18PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Hello Konstantin,
> 
> The man-pages Bugzilla component (as well as other components on
> Bugzilla by the look of things) is receiving vast quantities of spam.
> What can be done about this? (Just marking the bugs private and
> closing isn't workable. There's just too many bugs coming in...).

Not much can be done. :( Bugzilla's default spam-fighting capabilities
are abysmal -- I can't even delete any accounts without installing
multiple extensions. I'm actively investigating what we can do to
improve the situation and will follow up shortly.

Regards,
-- 
Konstantin Ryabitsev
Linux Foundation Collab Projects
Montréal, Québec

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Bugzilla spam "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 20:30 +0200
  Re: Bugzilla spam Konstantin Ryabitsev <mricon@kernel.org> - 2016-07-13 20:40 +0200
    Re: Bugzilla spam "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 20:50 +0200
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