An issue can be 'retired' using an administrative tool on the tracker machine. I'm signed up to be the person who does this. While I check for spam periodically it is always good to be told about some.<br><br>The metadata can be reversed because the log tells what the changes were. Again, I will take care of this.
<br><br>I'll have to change the password on the offending account and see if I can contact the owner.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Georg Brandl</b> <<a href="mailto:g.brandl@gmx.net">
g.brandl@gmx.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">It looks like we have the first vandalism incident in the live tracker,
<br>see issues #1165, #1166.<br><br>How to proceed here?<br><br>In #1165, the spammer added a comment and made several changes to metadata.<br>Marking the offensive message ("Hi guys.") as spam doesn't make sense. I can
<br>delete the message, but it doesn't seem that I can easily delete the metadata<br>changes made.<br><br>#1166 is a newly created nonsense issue. Can it be deleted completely?<br><br>Also, since the offending username "esr" was part of the Python
SF.net<br>project, how did the spammer gain access to the account?<br><br>Georg<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Tracker-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Tracker-discuss@python.org">Tracker-discuss@python.org
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