Re: Wireshark-bugs mailing list archive shutting down

[Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>]

It looks like they archive via a mail subscription (the correct way) as
opposed to scraping our site (the bad and incorrect way) so they should
be unaffected.

On 12/28/16 12:50 AM, Alexis La Goutte wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1306750>
>
>     We've been getting spam on bugs.wireshark.org
>     <http://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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