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Date:      Sat, 14 Dec 2002 13:05:07 -0800
From:      David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How can I post a pr when my IP can't be reverse-resolved?
Message-ID:  <20021214210507.GA12180@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021214122121.GA16263@gothmog.gr>
References:  <3DFA09A2.C5B0103B@mindspring.com> <3DFB13B9.B185DCD0@softweyr.com> <20021214122121.GA16263@gothmog.gr>

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Thus spake Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>:
> Moderation for PRs submitted through email isn't going to win us a lot
> of new quality PRs, but it is certainly going to put extra delays to
> the submission of problem reports that I'd like to avoid.

Email isn't much harder to abuse than a web form.  If you want to
prevent abuse, you need either moderation or some sort of secure
authentication.  I think Bugzilla could help there, although it
raises questions about how to handle the email interface.

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