Traditionally, Bugzilla hasn't had very strong antispam measures. This has 
become a major issue for some public installations. For example, the Eclipse 
project now requires explicit permission for new users to open bugs:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1306750

We've been getting spam on bugs.wireshark.org but fortunately for us the volume 
is still low and it's easy enough to just set the "private" flag on the 
offending bugs. However, we have a separate self-inflicted issue. We log bug 
activity via the wireshark-bugs mailing list and those messages are archived, 
which effectively means we provide cheap and easy spam hosting at a popular web 
address. Cleaning up these messages is an inconvenient and manual process.

As a result I'm disabling the archive feature on the wireshark-bugs mailing 
list this upcoming Saturday, December 31. The mailing list itself will still be 
up and running and old archived messages will still be available, but new 
messages will not be archived after that date.
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