bug spam [was Re: Unable to close a bug in the tracker.]

[Glenn Morris]

Óscar Fuentes wrote:

> BTW, isn't it possible to setup a spam filter that automatically
> discards the most obvious occurrences? 

The mails are already pre-processed by spamassassin before they get to
the moderators. The stuff that gets through has a low spam score
(check the headers). Maybe the spamassassin setup needs tuning, I
wouldn't know how.

There certainly is a lot of spam, as a legacy of debbugs refusal to
obscure email addresses published on the web. Almost all of the spam
comes in to emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com addresses. If it's ever
possible to drop that, there should be much less spam.