On Thu, 02 Nov 2006, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > a) for mails to -close or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to prevent a > spammer/malicious person from closing all the bugs or mangling > with the BTS in such a way that would take us some effort to > recover
There's no reason to restrict control; spam sent there doesn't really do anything at all. Indeed, to this point, we have only occasionally had problems with control, generally of the BTS ping-pong variety which tends to be best dealt with with a bit of social engineering. Messages to -close are slightly more annoying; we could increase the default score of messages to control, and rely on the negative scoring rules to keep legitimate messages.... but that would, again, result in more false positives. I (and AFAIK, the rest of the BTS admins) are rather wary of gratitously increasing the numbers of false positives. [And yes, messages sent by scripts or people who haven't learned to jump through the right hoops are clearly false positives.] Don Armstrong -- A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain. -- Anatole France http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu