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Bug reports: information or spam?

Bug reports: information or spam?

Posted Apr 13, 2012 15:25 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: Bug reports: information or spam? by joey
Parent article: Bug reports: information or spam?

all it takes is a few spammers who set up a targeted spam template with the appropriate headers for submit@

It's hard to imagine any spammer doing that. The spammer would be writing special code to target less than a hundred pairs of human eyes. That doesn't even fit the definition of spam.


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Bug reports: information or spam?

Posted Apr 13, 2012 15:30 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

A lot of spammers don't care about human eyes; they target only the Google web crawler. They are more than willing to bash out a script to get their URLs into public places; trust me on this one.

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