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Date:      Sun, 02 Mar 2003 16:13:44 -0600
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled.
Message-ID:  <87wujhwh5z.fsf@strauser.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030302205143.GC76412@submonkey.net> (Ceri Davies's message of "Sun, 2 Mar 2003 20:51:43 %2B0000")
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> <3E6266D1.3020306@potentialtech.com> <20030302205143.GC76412@submonkey.net>

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At 2003-03-02T20:51:43Z, Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> writes:

> That's a good idea, but wouldn't really have helped; the email addresses
> concerned were "disposable" and all from various free webmail providers.

Could you rate-limit the system to 'n' submissions from a given email
address in a given unit of time?  That won't stop someone from creating 30
Hotmail accounts and posting 30*n PRs, but anyone that bored and with that
much time on their hands is basically unstoppable without human intervention
anyway.
=2D-=20
Kirk Strauser
In Googlis non est, ergo non est.

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