Well, it requires Trac to be version 0.11 or better to work properly. Hence, a painful upgrade.
----- Rom -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Lombraña González Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 8:18 AM To: Rom Walton Cc: Eric Myers; David Anderson (BOINC); BOINC Developers Mailing List Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] trac spam That could be the best solution ;) On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Rom Walton<[email protected]> wrote: > There is a newer spam filter for Trac that supports Captcha. > > ----- Rom > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Myers > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 2:38 PM > To: David Anderson (BOINC) > Cc: BOINC Developers Mailing List > Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] trac spam > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- ·························································································································································· PhD Candidate http://jarifa.unex.es/ http://flickr.com/photos/teleyinex ·························································································································································· Por favor, NO utilice formatos de archivo propietarios para el intercambio de documentos, como DOC y XLS, sino HTML, RTF, TXT, CSV o cualquier otro que no obligue a utilizar un programa de un fabricante concreto para tratar la información contenida en él. ·························································································································································· _______________________________________________ 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.
