Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:23:22 -0500 From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: HEADSUP: changes to GNATS spam filtering Message-ID: <20051016192322.GC13833@soaustin.net>
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One of the tasks that I've been performing for quite some time is to go into the GNATS database and close spam PRs. These generally wind up in the 'pending' state. On any given day there can be 5-10 of these, and sometimes even more. It's getting really boring to go clean these up. It turns out that spamassassin is set up as a first line of defense but the rules have not been tweaked for ages. I've now gone and tweaked the rulesets, while running regression tests on PRs that should have been rejected but weren't, but also on PRs that must still make it through. Here's the status: - It will now be difficult for a PR initially formatted in nothing but HTML to get through these filters. Regression testing of all ports PRs starting with 75000, which also included HTML (either in patches or in email replies), shows that zero legitimate PRs would have been rejected by these changes. (The rules that I have emphasized are the usual suspects of garish fonts, specially formatted URLs, images, and similar nonsense). In particular, if anything submitted from the web interface would have been affected by this, I expect my testing would have showed it. - It will now be extremely difficult for you to enter PRs about your home financing, mutually beneficial business relationships, stock portfolio, EBay and PayPal accounts, and medical problems. - I reasonably believe that no other PRs will be affected. - I will start actively monitoring the reject bin to look for any new problems. It turns out that on occasion things may have already been landing in there and no one noticed (one legitimate one today wound up there with no clue as to why it was rejected, the entire log consisted of "0/0".) However, note that more often, legitimate PRs get "lost" only temporarily -- they get a PR number and can be accessed individually from GNATSWeb, but can fail to show up in the overall index until our next forced index rebuild (run from cron). This is a separate issue. Please let me know *offlist* if you suspect that a new PR you submitted has been mishandled by GNATS and I'll investigate. I will be adding some text to the submission guidelines deprecating the use of HTML to submit PRs later today. Thanks for your patience and understanding. Mark Linimon bugmeister@FreeBSD.org
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