Re: Bot creating issues
Am Fri, 25 Nov 2016 11:43:07 -0800 schrieb "H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d": > > I hope that the bot don't use a real address because you've forget > > to uncheck "CC add me to the list"...which means that your address > > is possibly added to a database. > > Oops! :-( > If bots really want to collect email addresses from bugzilla there are other ways to do that: The 'bug report changed' email sent by bugzilla contains email addresses anyway: hsteoh@... changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED CC||hsteoh@... Resolution|--- |INVALID Also all these messages get posted to d.D.bugs including full email addresses. This archive can be indexed by crawlers: https://www.google.de/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fforum.dlang.org%2Fgroup%2Fissues=utf-8=utf-8=firefox-b_rd=cr=V1I5WM3QI8Kv8wfJsrKwAw#q=site:http:%2F%2Fforum.dlang.org%2Fgroup%2Fissues+hsteoh Additionally every logged in bugzilla user can see the email address of any other bugzilla user when reading a bug report. TLDR; better use a good spam filter :-(
Re: Bot creating issues
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 07:17:20PM +, WM.H via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Friday, 25 November 2016 at 17:37:13 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 05:34:53PM +, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via > > Digitalmars-d wrote: > > > On Friday, 25 November 2016 at 17:27:07 UTC, Dominikus Dittes > > > Scherkl wrote: > > > > Hm. > > > > > There seem to be some bot generating a lot of new Issues in > > > > > the D bugzilla. Or is that intentional?!? > > > > > > It started 3 days ago, but becomming increasingly frequent - at > > > the moment every twenty minutes a new one appears! > > > > I just went and closed a bunch of them that I could find. [...] > > T > > I hope that the bot don't use a real address because you've forget to > uncheck "CC add me to the list"...which means that your address is > possibly added to a database. Oops! :-( T -- Truth, Sir, is a cow which will give [skeptics] no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. -- Sam. Johnson
Re: Bot creating issues
On Friday, 25 November 2016 at 17:37:13 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 05:34:53PM +, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Friday, 25 November 2016 at 17:27:07 UTC, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote: > Hm. > > There seem to be some bot generating a lot of new Issues in > the D bugzilla. Or is that intentional?!? It started 3 days ago, but becomming increasingly frequent - at the moment every twenty minutes a new one appears! I just went and closed a bunch of them that I could find. [...] T I hope that the bot don't use a real address because you've forget to uncheck "CC add me to the list"...which means that your address is possibly added to a database.
Re: Bot creating issues
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 05:34:53PM +, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Friday, 25 November 2016 at 17:27:07 UTC, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote: > > Hm. > > > > There seem to be some bot generating a lot of new Issues in the D > > bugzilla. Or is that intentional?!? > > It started 3 days ago, but becomming increasingly frequent - at the > moment every twenty minutes a new one appears! I just went and closed a bunch of them that I could find. They all appear to come from the same account, so perhaps a temporary stop-gap is to disable the account in question? Though, I suspect it's not so simple, as it's probably a spam bot that's signing up new accounts to post spam every so often. I wonder if the solution might be as simple as slightly massaging the signup page so that it's not as recognizable to the spambot as the standard bugzilla signup page. This should at least defeat the dumbest of the spambots. Though I suspect nowadays smarter spambots are readily available to spammers that can easily bypass such measures. But unless we're being targeted specifically, simple measures ought to be able to stem the tide of spam. It's a whole 'nother can o' worms if we're being targeted specifically, though. T -- "No, John. I want formats that are actually useful, rather than over-featured megaliths that address all questions by piling on ridiculous internal links in forms which are hideously over-complex." -- Simon St. Laurent on xml-dev
Re: Bot creating issues
On Friday, 25 November 2016 at 17:27:07 UTC, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote: Hm. There seem to be some bot generating a lot of new Issues in the D bugzilla. Or is that intentional?!? It started 3 days ago, but becomming increasingly frequent - at the moment every twenty minutes a new one appears!
Re: Bot creating issues
On Friday, November 25, 2016 17:27:07 Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via Digitalmars-d wrote: > Hm. > > There seem to be some bot generating a lot of new Issues in the D > bugzilla. Or is that intentional?!? Of course, it isn't. It's spam. And Brad is looking into how to deal with it. - Jonathan M Davis
Bot creating issues
Hm. There seem to be some bot generating a lot of new Issues in the D bugzilla. Or is that intentional?!?