Re: Wireshark-bugs mailing list archive shutting down

[Edwin Groothuis <Edwin.Groothuis () riverbed com>]

How will affect that the visibility for searching for bugs via the Google search-engine?

Edwin

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From: wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Gerald Combs
Sent: Wednesday, 28 December 2016 06:50
To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev () wireshark org>; wireshark-bugs () wireshark org
Subject: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark-bugs mailing list archive shutting down

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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