304070 - Mailing list archives aren't publically accessible

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: bugzilla.org, defect, P3)

Description

[Matthew Burgess]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050725 Firefox/1.0.6 (Ubuntu package 1.0.6)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050725 Firefox/1.0.6 (Ubuntu package 1.0.6)

The "Summary" hyperlink requests an email address, yet all I want to do is view
the mailing list archives.  Is this intended behaviour?  If so, it might be nice
if the page could explain why an email address is required.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://bugzilla.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr?func=lists-long-full&extra=developers
2. Click on the "Summary" hyperlink

Actual Results:  
Prompted for an email address

Expected Results:  
I expected to be taken to the mailing list archives.

Comment 1

[A. Karl Kornel]

Suggest confirming.  While there may be a reason for the prompt, I don't see it
being used anywhere important (I can enter fake details with no problem) so some
informative text would be nice!

Or, if it's too hard to change the page, maybe the informative text or reason
could be entered here and the bug resolved as WORKSFORME

BTW hardware & OS are inaccurate.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Yeah, that's an anti-spamspider thing.  You can put whatever you want in it and get in, it's just to stop the spiders from grabbing mail addresses out of the list archives.

This is worth trying to get some kind of info on the page to let you know that though.

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Bug 628085 will fix this.

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

This is done on all the important mailing lists (via bug 628085)