Re: Wireshark-bugs mailing list archive shutting down

[Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte () gmail com>]

Hi Gerald,

I will be also impact mail-archive ? (
http://www.mail-archive.com/wireshark-bugs () wireshark org/info.html )
because i looking direclty on web interface (and not subscribe to the
mailing...)

Cheers

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org> wrote:

> Traditionally, Bugzilla hasn't had very strong antispam measures. This has
> become a major issue for some public installations. For example, the
> Eclipse project now requires explicit permission for new users to open bugs:
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1306750
>
> We've been getting spam on bugs.wireshark.org but fortunately for us the
> volume is still low and it's easy enough to just set the "private" flag on
> the offending bugs. However, we have a separate self-inflicted issue. We
> log bug activity via the wireshark-bugs mailing list and those messages are
> archived, which effectively means we provide cheap and easy spam hosting at
> a popular web address. Cleaning up these messages is an inconvenient and
> manual process.
>
> As a result I'm disabling the archive feature on the wireshark-bugs
> mailing list this upcoming Saturday, December 31. The mailing list itself
> will still be up and running and old archived messages will still be
> available, but new messages will not be archived after that date.
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