Re: Spammers are now closing bugs

[Glenn Morris]

Sven Joachim wrote:

>> I can't think of a single reason to have unobscured email addresses
>> visible on the bug web pages, as they are at present.
>
> I concur, but for Debian the debbugs maintainers have always rejected
> address obfuscation.  See http://bugs.debian.org/63995 and siblings.

I can't say I'm surprised, but I am disappointed.
GNU mailman gets this right.

Our only hope seems to be that when/if emacsbugs transits to a gnu
server, someone will be willing and able to modify the behaviour.

>> I see a spammer has just closed bug 1407 again.

BTW, I'm not going to reopen it, since it will just get closed again.

>> How annoying for the person who opened this bug.
>
> He might not have the highest opinion of the Emacs bug tracker now, yes.

He might not be alone.