Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
From other reports on the list, I'm almost sure these are not comming from wine-harvested emails. You can easily do a wine@kegel.com. I'd be curious to see how much spam you get on than email alone, if you post it only on wine-*@winehq.org and Wine Bugzilla.
Quite a few, really. Those are not from bugzilla, however.
This is not the point, though. The original point was that the spam robots took too much CPU from the database engine. Against that, either require login or start with techniques such as the one I described above. Jeremy's point is well taken, though. Putting a non-clickable link into the template is easy. Blocking the resulting IPs from getting to the database require bugzilla code maintanance, which is more than J is willing to do.
Removing the emails from the database (I'm in favour, myself. I suggest removing everything but the TLD, so my email for this list would become wine-devel@shemesh) would solve the spam harvesting problem as far as end users are concerned, but not as far as load on the database is concerned.
Shachar