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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 22:53:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Marty Combs <martycombs@127.0.0.1>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: GNATS regularly mined by spammers for e-mail addresses
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>Number:         44554
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       GNATS regularly mined by spammers for e-mail addresses
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 27 23:00:03 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:    Mon Oct 28 14:10:05 PST 2002
>Last-Modified:  Mon Oct 28 14:10:05 PST 2002
>Originator:     Marty Combs
>Release:        4.7
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct  9 15:08:34 GMT 2002     root@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

>Description:
Within 1 week of someone replying to a comment I made on GNATS about a potential bug (Problem ID#39148), spammers mined the To: or From: fields left in the e-mail by GNATS and began sending spam to that e-mail address.

Obviously the e-mail address listed is invalid, but can be determined by looking at the original GNATS problem ID# listed above.
>How-To-Repeat:
Create an e-mail address, make a comment on any bug listed in GNATS and wait a week or two.
>Fix:
Set up GNATS to filter out all From, To, or Cc header fields replacing them with generic ones.  Users interested in a particular bug can opt in to receive e-mails about that bug much like bugzilla.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: schweikh 
State-Changed-When: Mon Oct 28 14:02:37 PST 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
While we realize that spam is am increasing nuisance, the way to reduce 
and fight it is not to cripple or lobotomize our tools. Removing contact 
information in a bug tracking tool which often requires contacting the 
originator is a no-go. It should be as easy as possible. I note you have 
mangled your address to martycombs@127.0.0.1 which will probably lead to 
this message not reaching you and have the postmaster of freefall (where 
I edit this PR) get upset. This is what you get for chosing the wrong 
way to fight spam. :-( 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=44554 
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