That was an amusing bug.
I wish I had time to help more directly with this project, which has
been very helpful to me.
Frederick
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 08:04:40PM +0100, peter dalgaard wrote:
> In case you still care, see
>
> https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16726
>
> whic
In case you still care, see
https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16726
which even our very human spam detector hasn't decided to label as spam (yet).
-pd
> On 08 Feb 2016, at 18:34 , frede...@ofb.net wrote:
>
> Ah, thank you for that explanation. I somehow didn't catch that my
On 08 Feb 2016, at 18:34 , frede...@ofb.net wrote:
> Ah, thank you for that explanation. I somehow didn't catch that my
> Bugzilla account had been disabled by a human.
I like the notion that a somewhat rude message is ameliorated by the knowledge
that it was put there by a chronically annoyed
Ah, thank you for that explanation. I somehow didn't catch that my
Bugzilla account had been disabled by a human.
"Common pattern is to post ... something copied from a generic bug
report" - that sounds very annoying.
Frederick
On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 11:54:11AM +0100, peter dalgaard wrote:
> Un
Unfortunately, the spammers in question appear to be human (of sorts).
We're not sure what they're up to, but a common pattern is to post random text,
or something copied from a generic bug report (like "able to add 6 item"),
later followed by a comment containing a link or a file attachment.
No problem.
Another suggestion would be to simply validate user input like most
websites, and reject invalid submissions immediately, rather than
blocking the user's account. I don't know what kind of spambots you
are up against, but unless they are very intelligent I doubt they'll
be able to unde
On 05/02/2016 7:26 PM, frede...@ofb.net wrote:
Dear Dirk Eddelbuettel and Duncan Murdoch,
Thank you for your work on the wonderful R project!
I recently attempted to submit a bug with your Bugzilla interface:
https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi
I created an account, typed in all
You posted a bug report, but it had no content other than "til". That's
what many abusers of the system have done, so you were blocked.
I have read the first line of your bug report, and it says " I'm not
sure if this is a bug with i3 or R ". If you're not sure if it's a bug
or not, then ple
