Re: Choice of bug tracker

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>,  Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>,  Eli
>  Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
>   philipk@posteo.net,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2023 15:41:38 +0200
> 
> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
> 
> Hi Ihor,
> 
> >>> Agree. Isn't is possible to create an automatic bouncer for
> >>> non-subscribed non-whitelisted users to notify them about moderation?
> >>
> >> That's not done because it would give the spammers the feedback that the
> >> used mail address is valid. With the likelihood to get more spam.
> >
> > Is it something that was tried and then had to be removed?
> 
> Don't know, I'm not a debbugs moderator from the beginning.

I can tell that bug-gnu-emacs was once full of spam, so much so that
it was useless for actually working on Emacs.  You can see it in the
archives.