[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#5448) SPAM! in RT!

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[dspeyer@xxxxxxxxxxx - Wed Aug 27 13:29:21 2003]:

> John Wheeler wrote:
> 
> >Tickets with the subject "Your Details", "Thank you!", "Re: Your
> >application", and "Re: That Movie" all appear to be some kind of virus
> >or spam attack, with an attached .pif file.  In addition to killing
> >them, I suggest something be done to stop them.  The only thing I can
> >think of is only allowing people registered in the RT system (including
> >rt-guest) to create tickets.  Humans would still be able to add them
> >through logging in to the web site as guest.

They all come through e-mails to rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (or
bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx).  Problem is we really want to leave this open
so people can report bugs there.

> Might I propose the simple solution that we block all .pif attachments?  
> Maybe all exe, com, bat, scr, and vbs too while we're at it.  I can't 
> think of any conceivable use for any of them (unlike png and diff, which 
> are vital)

Paul, is this feasible?

> OTOH, are you *sure* that they're coming through RT?  Remember that this 
> virus forges its "from" line.

They're all in the RT database.  50-90% of the RT tickets are spam. 
It's really annoying to kill them all.  But there's nothing _I_ can do
to fix it, and the RT maintainers haven't come up with anything yet...

jason