[GNC] Has bugs-admin been hacked? Re: [Bug 797953] RFE: provide access to filter-by on right-mouse-click in Accounts register

[Michael Hendry]

> On 5 Nov 2021, at 16:43, Frank H. Ellenberger <frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> there is no hack.Every body can create a bugzilla account and write
> nonsense there. Because the treshold is low - no captchas  etc. -
> recently some "Search engine optimizers (SEOs)" found it a cheap way to
> propagate their client's URLs.
> 
> It is not only GnuCash affected, it is a wave rolling through the net.
> 
> It is usually fixed after short time, see
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla_Administration#Pending_Tasks
> 
> In my feeling SEOs are thieves stealing developer time!
> 
> Am 05.11.21 um 11:22 schrieb Michael Hendry:
>> I’ve received several emails like this recently, all ostensibly related to bugs I had reported, but the text is not relevant to the bug, and has numerous suspicious URLs which I haven’t followed.
>> 
>> The text doesn’t appear in the comments section relating to the bugs.
>> 
>> Michael Hendry
>> 
>>> On 4 Nov 2021, at 14:04, bugs-admin at bugs.gnucash.org wrote:
>>> 
>>> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797953
>>> 
>>> Ahmed Sayeed <ahmedsayeed1982 at yahoo.com> changed:
> CENSORED
> 
> Never forward Spam to any Mailing-List! Now the links are in the archive.
> 
> Warlord, can you fix that?
> 
> Regards
> Frank

Dear John and Frank,

Thanks for the reassurance from both and the telling-off from Frank!

I take it there’s no way I can delete the post I sent which includes all those unwanted URLs?

Michael