From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Sat May 2 18:17:53 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (Daniel Diniz) Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 16:17:53 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue279] Removing a message sends an empty changenote to nosy users In-Reply-To: <1241281073.6.0.853732988237.issue279@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <1241281073.6.0.853732988237.issue279@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> New submission from Daniel Diniz : Ezio Melotti reports that when a message is removed from an issue, an email with an empty changenote is sent. The attached patch avoids sending it to the nosy list, but still sends the email to busybody. It would be easy to include 'Removed message:' with links instead if that is considered better. ---------- files: msg_removal.diff messages: 1385 nosy: ajaksu2 priority: bug status: unread title: Removing a message sends an empty changenote to nosy users _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Attached is a simplified version of the patches.py detector from python-dev that should be enough to save these files, along with .py ones, as text/plain. ---------- files: patches.py messages: 1386 nosy: ajaksu2 priority: bug status: unread title: Save patches as text plain in the meta and setuptools instances _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: patches.py Type: text/x-python Size: 465 bytes Desc: not available URL: From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Sat May 2 22:40:53 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (Georg Brandl) Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 20:40:53 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue280] Save patches as text plain in the meta and setuptools instances In-Reply-To: <1241296793.03.0.105591612932.issue280@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <1241296853.85.0.869280006903.issue280@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Georg Brandl added the comment: Big +1. ---------- nosy: +gbrandl status: unread -> chatting _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Sat May 2 22:45:30 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven) Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 20:45:30 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue280] Save patches as text plain in the meta and setuptools instances In-Reply-To: <1241296793.03.0.105591612932.issue280@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <1241297130.4.0.985398515796.issue280@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven added the comment: A +1 from me as well since I was the one who complained to Daniel about this. ---------- nosy: +asmodai _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From ajaksu at gmail.com Wed May 6 09:11:58 2009 From: ajaksu at gmail.com (Daniel Diniz) Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 04:11:58 -0300 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues In-Reply-To: <2d75d7660904241116n3a2bfa97he27981845cece867@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090403160659.1AB6278590@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> <2d75d7660904241116n3a2bfa97he27981845cece867@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2d75d7660905060011w43955ado9579e42738f57b27@mail.gmail.com> Daniel Diniz wrote: R. David Murray wrote: >> ?I suggest we change >> this report to provide statistics that are designed to encourage people >> using the tracker when they make progress on reducing the total number >> of outstanding bugs, or at least make it clear that the open bug count >> isn't increasing as fast as the above report format makes it seem. > > I'll try to implement this today. It took me a couple of days just to understand how the report is generated :/ A refactored version of roundup-summary is attached, you can compare its ugly code to the original ugly code at http://codereview.appspot.com/53058/diff/1001/1002 . Main changes: - Pass arguments to functions instead of having everything as globals. - Simplify table template parsing and result generation, avoiding eval()s. - Replace lots of print-based output with a few .write() calls. - Move code from module scope into (many!) functions. - Merge similar functions/classes, split long functions into smaller ones. - Fix spaces/tabs, long lines, variable and function naming, unused imports. - Miscellaneous reorganization. It's supposed to be a drop-in replacement to the current roundup-summary, but its output has a couple spurious whitespaces compared to the original's. I have to let this rest for at least another week, but I'll be able to add your suggested report format after that. Regards, Daniel -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: roundup-summary Type: application/octet-stream Size: 34721 bytes Desc: not available URL: From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Sat May 9 19:58:16 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (Daniel Diniz) Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 17:58:16 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue281] We offer the best alarm-clocks for your little fellow down there. In-Reply-To: <000d01c9cebf$777743b0$6400a8c0@> Message-ID: <1241891896.48.0.0340164969165.issue281@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Daniel Diniz added the comment: Spam :( ---------- nosy: +ajaksu2 priority: -> wish status: unread -> resolved _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Sat May 9 20:38:31 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (Daniel Diniz) Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 18:38:31 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue283] Add a 3.2 version In-Reply-To: <1241894311.51.0.915676348793.issue283@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <1241894311.51.0.915676348793.issue283@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> New submission from Daniel Diniz : Now that we have a 3.1 beta, some RFEs for 3.x need to be set to 3.2. I'll submit a patch for PEP 101 regarding bug tracker activities, it should include at least: - Add version X.Y+1 as soon as version X.Y enters alpha. If we're OK with adding more tracker-related tasks to PEP 101, I'd like to add these: - Change non-doc RFEs to version X.Y+1 as soon as version X.Y enters beta. - Review open issues: this might find (and flag) lurking showstopper bugs, besides reminding people to fix the easy ones they forgot about. - Change 'behavior' issues to the bugfixes-version if they are still set to a now security-fixes-version. ---------- messages: 1393 nosy: ajaksu2 priority: bug status: unread title: Add a 3.2 version _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From =?utf-8?q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=C3=B6wis=22_=3Cmetatracker=40psf=2Eupfronthost?= at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Sat May 9 22:22:07 2009 From: =?utf-8?q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=C3=B6wis=22_=3Cmetatracker=40psf=2Eupfronthost?= at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (=?utf-8?q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=C3=B6wis=22_=3Cmetatracker=40psf=2Eupfronthost?= at psf.upfronthosting.co.za) Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 20:22:07 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue283] Add a 3.2 version In-Reply-To: <1241894311.51.0.915676348793.issue283@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <1241900527.95.0.745417379415.issue283@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Martin v. L?wis added the comment: I've added the version. As for the changes to the PEP - you would have to ask the PEP authors. ---------- nosy: +loewis status: unread -> resolved _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Mon May 11 09:25:51 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (Peter Funk) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 07:25:51 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue281] We offer the best alarm-clocks for your little fellow down there. In-Reply-To: <1241891896.48.0.0340164969165.issue281@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <1242026751.67.0.868291024624.issue281@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Peter Funk added the comment: I did n't submit this spam. Someone is abusing my email address by forgery. Peter Funk. _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Sun May 10 01:28:29 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (Daniel Diniz) Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 23:28:29 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue284] Better summary reports In-Reply-To: <1241911709.97.0.816502801538.issue284@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <1241911709.97.0.816502801538.issue284@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> New submission from Daniel Diniz : The attached file is meant to (eventually) replace scripts/roundup-summary. It is a major refactoring of the original, with less code, more documentation and much more code organization. Martin, can you run this against a real tracker and compare the output to the original one? Its output should match that of he original script, except for a couple of fixes: minor textual changes on the --help output, buglets (e.g. for audit output) and whitespace normalization. I want to add a couple of niceties to the reports, like a better summary of the net change in open issues, report issues per priority and type, etc., but the current script is way too confusing for me. Using a real templating engine (http://pythonpaste.org/tempita/ -> 730 LOC) instead of rolling our own (as the current code does) could also be nice. ---------- files: roundup-summary messages: 1395 nosy: ajaksu2 priority: feature status: unread title: Better summary reports _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: roundup-summary Type: application/octet-stream Size: 33945 bytes Desc: not available URL: From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Wed May 13 22:38:30 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (Daniel Diniz) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 20:38:30 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue263] Email not always sent to Python-bugs-list, depending on the user In-Reply-To: <1239031039.27.0.209933652376.issue263@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <1242247110.63.0.378097620581.issue263@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Daniel Diniz added the comment: I cannot reproduce this on the Roundup side of things, even with ludicrously complicated usernames (including null-bytes and ?). Here's a sample of goes into the debug file: From: =?utf-8?b?S3Jpc3Rqw6FuIFZhbHVyIErDs25zc8O2xZXDp8OHw5HCo8KybSBhIAhqIAhh?= =?utf-8?b?IAhrIAhzIAh1IOqcoPOggYUgCfOggYYgCfOggYcgCeKYp+KYpyAJ4pioIAk=?= =?utf-8?b?4pipIAnimKogCeKYqyAJ4pisIAnimK0gCeKYriAJ4piv77+977+977+977+9?= =?utf-8?b?77+9IDxpc3N1ZV90cmFja2VyQGV4YW1wbGUuY29tPg==?= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Kristj=C3=A1n Valur J=C3=B3nss=C3=B6=C5=95=C3=A7=C3=87=C3=91=C2=A3=C2=B2m a= =08j =08a =08k =08s =08u =EA=9C=A0=F3=A0=81=85 =F3=A0=81=86 =F3=A0=81=87= =E2=98=A7=E2=98=A7 =E2=98=A8 =E2=98=A9 =E2=98=AA =E2=98=AB =E2=98=AC= =E2=98=AD =E2=98=AE =E2=98=AF=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF= =BD added the comment: ---------- nosy: +ajaksu2 status: unread -> chatting _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Thu May 14 04:04:31 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (R David Murray) Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 02:04:31 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue263] Email not always sent to Python-bugs-list, depending on the user In-Reply-To: <1239031039.27.0.209933652376.issue263@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <1242266671.34.0.797787292927.issue263@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> R David Murray added the comment: This seems to have just started happening to me. Specifically I'm not getting any of Martin's posts, but other people are coming through fine. Note that previously names with non-ASCII characters showed up in my inbox with what appears to me to be an incorrect encoded-word encoding of name+username (the name should be encoded as an encoded word and the username should be ascii, to my reading of the relevant RFC). My theory is that the new email server is rejecting these as invalid.... ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Thu May 14 11:15:14 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (Quentin Gallet-Gilles) Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 09:15:14 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue263] Email not always sent to Python-bugs-list, depending on the user In-Reply-To: <1239031039.27.0.209933652376.issue263@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <1242292514.34.0.263200857758.issue263@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Quentin Gallet-Gilles added the comment: Indeed, this is happening with Martin's posts at the moment, for instance with the issue 1621 ( http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2009-May/subject.html ). Is there a way to know if roundup actually sent the mail ? I'm starting to wonder whether the issue is on mailman's side. _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Thu May 14 19:34:56 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (Daniel Diniz) Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 17:34:56 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue285] Add issue title to issue links, avoid linking to bogus issues In-Reply-To: <1242322496.14.0.859560166441.issue285@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <1242322496.14.0.859560166441.issue285@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> New submission from Daniel Diniz : Understanding how one issue relates to others would be easier if issue links had the linked issue's title as a tooltip. So we'd have: #6020 We can easily add this to the dependencies and superseder links. Adding titles to issue links in message bodies is a bit more involved, but doable. As a benefit, we'd be able to avoid linking to bogus issues. RFE by Ezio Melotti and R. David Murray. ---------- assignedto: ajaksu2 messages: 1400 nosy: ajaksu2 priority: feature status: unread title: Add issue title to issue links, avoid linking to bogus issues _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Mon May 18 18:53:25 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (R David Murray) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 16:53:25 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue263] Email not always sent to Python-bugs-list, depending on the user In-Reply-To: <1239031039.27.0.209933652376.issue263@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <1242665605.81.0.0671872050501.issue263@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> R David Murray added the comment: Additional data-point: email from Martin on issues on which I am nosy _does_ arrive in my inbox. I have noticed, also, that such direct emails are sometimes html formatted, when the copy of the same email to the bugs list is not. Also, I don't see the weird encoded-word encoding of given-name+username on emails directly to me, but I did see it on emails to the bugs list when they used to get through. So, there is some difference in the paths take by those two email transmissions that is dropping emails with non-ASCII given-names on the ground. _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Fri May 22 21:23:40 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (Georg Brandl) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 19:23:40 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue263] Email not always sent to Python-bugs-list, depending on the user In-Reply-To: <1239031039.27.0.209933652376.issue263@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <1243020220.81.0.517889480556.issue263@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Georg Brandl added the comment: Is someone looking into this? It may hint at some deeper problem with the new mail.python.org... ---------- nosy: +gbrandl _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Fri May 22 23:08:38 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (R David Murray) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 21:08:38 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue263] Email not always sent to Python-bugs-list, depending on the user In-Reply-To: <1239031039.27.0.209933652376.issue263@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <1243026518.81.0.735470271296.issue263@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> R David Murray added the comment: Has anyone emailed pydotorg about it? _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Sat May 23 14:22:42 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (=?utf-8?q?Martin_v=2E_L=C3=B6wis?=) Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 12:22:42 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue263] Email not always sent to Python-bugs-list, depending on the user In-Reply-To: <1239031039.27.0.209933652376.issue263@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <1243081362.59.0.885001435886.issue263@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Martin v. L?wis added the comment: I guess the problem is that bugs.python.org puts things like From: =?utf-8?b?Ik1hcnRpbiB2LiBMw7Z3aXMiIDxyZXBvcnRAYnVncy5weXRob24ub3JnPg==?=@psf.upfronthosting.co.za into the message; this is bogus. Even the ones reported by ajaksu2 are bogus; it shouldn't b-encode the email address, but only the user name. The root cause is the switchover of roundup to the email package. roundup now does first utils.formataddr((u"Martin v. L?wis", "martin at v.loewis.de")), then creates an email.header.Header(u'"Martin v. L\xf6wis" ') and converts that to a str. This is now fixed in r72846, r72847. ---------- nosy: +loewis status: chatting -> resolved _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From rdmurray at bitdance.com Sat May 23 16:46:21 2009 From: rdmurray at bitdance.com (R. David Murray) Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 10:46:21 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue5259] smtplib is broken in Python3 (fwd) Message-ID: I have no idea how this happened; I certainly did not intend to delete this file. I will re upload it (I don't see a restore button...) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 14:24:18 +0000 From: R. David Murray To: python-bugs-list at python.org Subject: [issue5259] smtplib is broken in Python3 Changes by R. David Murray : Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file13774/test-smtplib.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/rdmurray%40bitdance.com From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Tue May 26 21:09:17 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (Daniel Diniz) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 19:09:17 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue285] Add issue title to issue links, avoid linking to bogus issues In-Reply-To: <1242322496.14.0.859560166441.issue285@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <1243364957.13.0.629555735674.issue285@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Daniel Diniz added the comment: The attached patch: * Fixes an 'integer too large' error in templating.py that causes issues to be undisplayable. * Adds title attributes to Roundup's class links (e.g. 'version 1'). * Moves in-message issue links of the form 'issue 123' from templating.py to local_replace.py. * Adds issue titles to issue links in dependencies and message bodies. * Adds the 'open' or 'closed' CSS classes to issue links. I can provide the bugfix part as an independent patch. ---------- status: unread -> chatting _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: postgress_large_nodeid.diff Type: text/x-diff Size: 516 bytes Desc: not available URL: From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Thu May 28 10:42:19 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (Peter Funk) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 08:42:19 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue286] Spam issue In-Reply-To: <000d01c9df0e$dce9dd20$6400a8c0@> Message-ID: <1243500139.07.0.953842013993.issue286@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Peter Funk added the comment: This issue is obviously Spam and was not created by me but by some spammer abusing my userid. Please could someone retire this issue? This has happened before in issue281 and others. I don't want to have my userid linked to spam issues. If I can do anything about this, please tell me what. Many thanks in advance. Regards, Peter Funk ---------- nosy: +admin, forsberg, loewis priority: -> bug status: unread -> chatting title: We will take a great care of your body and soul. -> Spam issue _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Thu May 28 23:55:55 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (=?utf-8?q?Martin_v=2E_L=C3=B6wis?=) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 21:55:55 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue286] Spam issue In-Reply-To: <000d01c9df0e$dce9dd20$6400a8c0@> Message-ID: <1243547755.75.0.499633825707.issue286@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Martin v. L?wis added the comment: I think the only permanent solution would be for you to change the email address that you use in the tracker. ---------- status: chatting -> resolved _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Fri May 29 08:06:48 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (Peter Funk) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 06:06:48 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue286] Spam issue In-Reply-To: <1243547755.75.0.499633825707.issue286@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <20090529060556.GN6592@pfmaster.artcom-gmbh.de> Peter Funk added the comment: Hallo Martin, Martin v. L?wis suggested 28.05.2009 to me: > I think the only permanent solution would be for you to change the email address > that you use in the tracker. Thanks for the suggestion. I've done so and exchanged the address with one of my other not so well known email addresses and put my original one into the field containing the list of alternative addresses. But I didn't understand how this is supposed to work and how it would prevent spammers from creating new invalid issues like this one here or issue281 in the metatracker. Please explain. Thanks in advance. Regards, Peter -- Peter Funk, ?Oldenburger Str.86, D-27777 Ganderkesee office: ArtCom GmbH, ?Haferwende 2, D-28357 Bremen, Germany tel:+49-421-20419-0 cell:+49-179-640-8878 ---------- nosy: +pefu status: resolved -> chatting _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Sat May 30 00:21:14 2009 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (=?utf-8?q?Martin_v=2E_L=C3=B6wis?=) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 22:21:14 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue286] Spam issue In-Reply-To: <20090529060556.GN6592@pfmaster.artcom-gmbh.de> Message-ID: <4A205FD7.1050705@v.loewis.de> Martin v. L?wis added the comment: > But I didn't understand how this is supposed to work and how it > would prevent spammers from creating new invalid issues like > this one here or issue281 in the metatracker. Please explain. The spammers send email with your registered email address to the tracker. The tracker checks whether the From field is a registered address of some user, and if so, it accepts the message. Now that you have changed your email address, spammers would have to use the new address in From. Since they don't know what the new address is, the spam will be rejected. _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From martin at v.loewis.de Sat May 30 00:21:11 2009 From: martin at v.loewis.de (=?UTF-8?B?Ik1hcnRpbiB2LiBMw7Z3aXMi?=) Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 00:21:11 +0200 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue286] Spam issue In-Reply-To: <20090529060556.GN6592@pfmaster.artcom-gmbh.de> References: <20090529060556.GN6592@pfmaster.artcom-gmbh.de> Message-ID: <4A205FD7.1050705@v.loewis.de> > But I didn't understand how this is supposed to work and how it > would prevent spammers from creating new invalid issues like > this one here or issue281 in the metatracker. Please explain. The spammers send email with your registered email address to the tracker. The tracker checks whether the From field is a registered address of some user, and if so, it accepts the message. Now that you have changed your email address, spammers would have to use the new address in From. Since they don't know what the new address is, the spam will be rejected.