From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 2 12:17:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B134D37B401 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 12:17:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFCDC43F3F for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 12:17:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h22KHLrX014192; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 15:17:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E6266D1.3020306@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 15:17:21 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ceri Davies Cc: Matthew Emmerton , "Pedro F. Giffuni" , Jim Mock , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled. References: <20030302162206.66969.qmail@web13404.mail.yahoo.com> <3E62440A.4010001@potentialtech.com> <20030302181204.GA32498@submonkey.net> <005101c2e0f6$2aae2e30$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20030302200657.GA76412@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20030302200657.GA76412@submonkey.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ceri Davies wrote: >>>>Or you could consider helping find a way to re-enable >>>>the www to send-pr while preventing script kiddies from >>>>abusing it. >> >>Why not have a "pr-moderator" for each category (i386, kern, doc, etc), who >>approves each incoming PR. Basically this person would act as a front-line >>defense against spammers, but it would also allow them to assign PRs to >>developers as they are submitted, rather than letting them sit in the PR >>database for weeks/months before anyone picks them up. > > I believe something like this is being considered. Have you considered a 'confirmation' system that sends mail back to the originator for confirmation before actually submitting the PR? This way, if someone does manage to spam the GNATS database, we'll have their email address and can officially complain. Most ISPs would have such abuse be grounds for cancelling their account. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message