Re: Wanted: Volunteer to code a Patchbot

Rik van Riel
2002-01-31T13:52:53Z

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Stuart Young wrote:

> Possibly, but then it'll reply to the spammer and you'll get bounces left
> and right. Perhaps it's a simple case that the patcher submitting will have
> to have registered the email address before submitting their patch. Only
> needs to be done once (not every time a patch is submitted, that's mad!),
> and weeds out the noise.

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