From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 14 16:21:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB4A37B401 for ; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 16:21:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F8FC43ED1 for ; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 16:21:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a031.otenet.gr [212.205.215.31]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBF0LLEP028864; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:21:22 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBF0LLH5005292; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:21:21 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBF0LIJ1005291; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:21:18 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:21:17 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: David Schultz Cc: Wes Peters , Terry Lambert , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can I post a pr when my IP can't be reverse-resolved? Message-ID: <20021215002117.GB5083@gothmog.gr> References: <3DFA09A2.C5B0103B@mindspring.com> <3DFB13B9.B185DCD0@softweyr.com> <20021214122121.GA16263@gothmog.gr> <20021214210507.GA12180@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021214210507.GA12180@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-12-14 13:05, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Giorgos Keramidas : > > Moderation for PRs submitted through email isn't going to win us a lot > > of new quality PRs, but it is certainly going to put extra delays to > > the submission of problem reports that I'd like to avoid. > > Email isn't much harder to abuse than a web form. If you want to > prevent abuse, you need either moderation or some sort of secure > authentication. I think Bugzilla could help there, although it > raises questions about how to handle the email interface. Email is easier to track though. And measures *can* be taken. Anyway, I'm not entirely against moderation for PRs submitted through email too. Right now, this is not one of my problems though. My most serious concern is implementing something that makes moderation possible, and not choosing whether it be used for email only or web only or both. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message