Re: Announcing bug tracker

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oliver Fromme wrote:

*snip*

> There's just one small problem.  It seems that the bug
> tracker simply uses the user-part of the email address
> as account name.  However, my client on this machine
> generates unique hashes when sending articles to public
> newsgroups, in order to protect 

against?

> spam.  For example, this
> posting comes from:  check+j2e0vn00rsh5xb2o@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> One of the postings I made to the bugs list 3 months ago
> made it into your tracker with the this account name:
> check+ixjt6r00rst8bncd
>
> Obviously that makes it somewhat difficult to handle,
> because a different hash is generated each time.  Also,
> it's not possible to reply to such an address when it
> is older than two weeks ...  After two weeks, any reply
> is automatically answered with a "fresh" email address
> (I've currently disabled that feature, though, so I could
> get a possword for my account).
>
> Unfortunately, I don't know how to easily solve that
> problem.
>
> Best regards
>    Oliver

Dunno how that would block spam that you cannot block just as effectively by 
other means.  Ones that do not break *anything*.

In fact, you may be creating more server workload in general for legitimate 
callers, not to mention possible collateral spam damage.

Which of us is out of step here?

Bill