Re: [Tools-discuss] Datatracker login for errata

[Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>]

On 6/1/23 3:54 PM, Robert Sparks wrote:
>
> On 6/1/23 3:36 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> On 02-Jun-23 07:35, Jean Mahoney wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> On 5/28/23 4:27 PM, Bob Hinden wrote:
>>>> John,
>>>>
>>>>> On May 28, 2023, at 2:14 PM, John R Levine <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 28 May 2023, Tim Wicinski wrote:
>>>>>> Could the errata require email address confirmation or is that 
>>>>>> too much?
>>>>> I suppose so, SMOP.  The scripts are in the same place as the 
>>>>> HTMLizer.
>>>> Any way to see what percentage of non-spam errata are from people 
>>>> who do have data tracker accounts?
>>> [JM] For 2022, only 40% of the addresses that were used to report
>>> non-spam errata can be linked to a datatracker account.
>>
>> I've lost track. Do you also see spam from people who *do* have a DT 
>> account?
>
> I'll help answer that with real data, 
Or not - the addresses that spam errata reports came from in 2022 aren't 
available.
> but I'm not sure how knowing would affect what we're discussing?
>
> Assume the answer is yes, then what? It's not like they created the 
> account to make errata reports so far. (Are you just trying to ask if 
> people have already created junk datatracker accounts - the answer to 
> that requires making some assumptions about whether an account that 
> was created is then not used for anything other than perhaps getting 
> onto the mailing-list global allow list, but I think we have rather a 
> lot of them.
>
> If the answer is no, it's still not clear to me how that helps decide 
> what barriers to put in front of the errata system.
>
>>
>>    Brian
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Jean
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> John Levine, [e-mail], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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>>>>> https://jl.ly
>>>>>
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