On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, David Anderson wrote: > > We're looking at upgrading to the current version of trac (0.11) > which may have better spam-prevention features.
If the newer Trac does not prevent this, another way to prevent such spam is to require some kind of approval for creating new Trac accounts, so that the spammers cannot do so, but legit users can. Hopefully the permission to do so could be delegated to a few volunteers, to keep from adding work load to the core developers. One would hope it would be less work than what it takes now for the people who are kindly cleaning up the spam. The drawback to that would be that it adds an extra barrier to getting information and contributions from people who are willing to help. But hopefully the barrier would be small enough not to scare them away, but large enough to keep the spammers out. Another possible way to handle it is an intermediate reporting form, like the one I set up for I2U2: http://www.i2u2.org/HelpDeskRequest.php It collects all the info needed to create a ticket, but it does not create a ticket. It sends the report to a very short mailing list, and can also post to a BOINC forum. If and only if the issue is worthy of a ticket in our bugzilla then someone on our team creates the ticket, not the reporting user. But they can do so easily with the info collected, while editing appropriately. Anonymous requests are allowed, provided the user solves a RECAPTCHA. If you are already logged in to the site (based on BOINC) then it automatically fills in the user user info and posts to the forum under your name. I can share the code for it if someone wants to modifiy it for BOINC alpha or however, but I'm afraid I don't have time (or awake brain cells) to do that right now. -Eric -- Eric Myers <[email protected]> 503-564-4169 PGP Key #6E2D2259/RSA: BA39 1D46 5EC3 0D59 C2AC 6FCB F920 4DC8 PGP Key #E519EAC3/DSS: D15B 9A50 B1ED 2947 EC29 B0F6 EA61 FB6E E519 EAC3 _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
