On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 05:47:05PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > I don't see your point right now. The PTS page is only created once the > > > package is in unstable. At that point, you can't have the "removed" page. > > > > No, the page is also created when there is news, but no unstable package > > *yet*. So it's either removed, or very-new. > > That's not the expected behaviour... we usually loose the first news > (the first accepted mail) because the package didn't exist yet. This was a > kind of feature to avoid denial of service with someone sending many fakes > mails creating new fake packages (and the associated files on the server). > > Did someone change that ?
I think you changed it, at least, I don't recall that I changed it :-p. I might be wrong of course, and simply forgot. The exception is for katie mail, and not for general incoming news mail. Even so, I think the DOS potential isn't very big, not bigger than the current DOS potential as we witnessed with the start of the testing watch -- even though that's now pretty much not an issue anymore. Also, with the news filename renaming, it's *much* easier now to actually delete a specific news item, where that was previously very difficult and required a lot of manual tweaking. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
