Resilience of ‘debbugs’ against spam (was: "Dear Customer" spam in the BTS)

2016-10-26 Thread Ben Finney
Don Armstrong writes: > Any developer who is interested in volunteering and/or helping can > e-mail ow...@bugs.debian.org, and I promise to try to train people and > get them set up. Shall do. > [And/or write additional tools to make things easier.] To what extent does

Re: "Dear Customer" spam in the BTS

2016-10-26 Thread Hans
Hi Don, > > We do spamassassin with a huge set of rules. I don't think we're > currently using clamav in the BTS, but we are using it for Debian > mailing lists. > > [I'd certainly accept a patch to enable clamav; I personally haven't had > time to readdress using it.] if you are interested, I

Re: "Dear Customer" spam in the BTS

2016-10-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Don, On Wed, 26 Oct 2016, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2016, Hans wrote: > > What about spamassassin? Wouldn't spamassassin and its databases not be the > > better way? I made good experiences with spamassassin on my mail servers. > > We do spamassassin with a huge set of rules. I

Re: "Dear Customer" spam in the BTS

2016-10-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 26 Oct 2016, Hans wrote: > What about spamassassin? Wouldn't spamassassin and its databases not be the > better way? I made good experiences with spamassassin on my mail servers. We do spamassassin with a huge set of rules. I don't think we're currently using clamav in the BTS, but we

Re: "Dear Customer" spam in the BTS

2016-10-26 Thread Hans
What about spamassassin? Wouldn't spamassassin and its databases not be the better way? I made good experiences with spamassassin on my mail servers. My configuration was a little bit weired, I admit. As I was using spamassassin and clamav together, it was very effective. Note, that I never

Re: "Dear Customer" spam in the BTS

2016-10-26 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:43:31 +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > I've recently received "Dear Customer" spam on a bug of mine. I've > searched the BTS [1], and there are many, many, many of these spam > postings in the BTS, see f.ex. [2]. > > I think it doesn't make sense to press "this bug log

Re: "Dear Customer" spam in the BTS

2016-10-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 26 Oct 2016, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > Has anyone tried to do such a thing yet (methodically clean the bug > archive of spam)? Where and how could I start such an effort? How > would I get read/write access to the BTS archive? We're always looking for more vict^Wvolunteers; Blars Blarson

Re: "Dear Customer" spam in the BTS

2016-10-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > Has anyone tried to do such a thing yet (methodically clean the bug > archive of spam)? Where and how could I start such an effort? How would > I get read/write access to the BTS archive? The BTS admins do that regularly, based on people

Re: "Dear Customer" spam in the BTS

2016-10-26 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > Hello all, > > I've recently received "Dear Customer" spam on a bug of mine. I've > searched the BTS [1], and there are many, many, many of these spam > postings in the BTS, see f.ex. [2]. Annoying indeed.

"Dear Customer" spam in the BTS

2016-10-26 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Hello all, I've recently received "Dear Customer" spam on a bug of mine. I've searched the BTS [1], and there are many, many, many of these spam postings in the BTS, see f.ex. [2]. I think it doesn't make sense to press "this bug log contains spam" on each of those pages. Better would be to go