Re: Spammers are now closing bugs

[Stefan Monnier]

>> There is a very simple solution. Restrict bug closure and other
>> administrative tasks to people on a list of emacs contributors and the
>> original submitter. It is not a perfect solution, but it should deal with
>> the problem of random spammers.
> Another possibility would involve a confirmation code -- but that
> would be kind of a pain for regular contributors, so should probably
> be used as an additional validation method, not the only one.

The incoming messages should be filtered the same way that messages to
emacs-devel get filtered (i.e. they need to be moderated).


        Stefan