Re: Spammers are now closing bugs

[Samuel Bronson]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.