Re: Blacklisting of email addresses?

[Andrew Sobala <andrew sobala net>]

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 01:23, Elijah P Newren wrote:
> Unusual subject, I know.  Here's what I just found:
> 
> semprecantabile hotmail com has filed 13 bug reports on bugzilla --
> 81567, 81882, 82172, 82338, 87359, 90515, 90614, 92088, 93957, 94544,
> 97818, 97819, and 97820.  Each and every one of those consist entirely
> of the description "bug report".  The first couple were responded to
> months before the last several were filed and each response included
> varying amounts of information about how to provide a better bug
> report.  It's pretty clear that this person simply wants to waste our
> time.  Should we simply keep marking these as
> incomple/invalid/notabug/needinfo/duplicates, or can something else
> be done?
> 

The amount of time that they're wasting is minimal, and I would fight
very hard against blacklisting email addresses unless it's high volume /
automatic / intentional spamming. I think they just don't realise how
useless the bug report is.

-- 
Andrew

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