Re: Spammers are now closing bugs

[Jason Rumney]

Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-04-19 21:20 +0200, Glenn Morris wrote:
>
>   
> > As far I am aware, this:
> >
> > http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=38;bug=1407
> >
> > is the first instance of spam closing a bug.
> >     
>
> Note that this will only happen to bugs that had been closed (and
> reopened) before, since this is necessary for the spammers to pick up
> the nnnn-done address.  In Debian, this issue had been discussed many
> times already, AFAICT without any solution.
>   

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.