Eric S. Johansson wrote: >> Does someone know how to deal with these damn spammers? They are >> trying to fill out the Trac with pointer to their bloody >> websites. >> >> It seems that Trac doesn't allow to remove comments. There is >> some sort of web administration portal plus a plug-in that are >> meant to allow it, but those didn't work for me. >> >> Any idea? By the moment I've added a few redirection rules to >> hide affected bugs, but we must do something with this. If Trac >> design is this broken we'll have to change it or something.. :-( >> >> Ideas? > > only ones that are not PC. I've done a significant amount of work > on proof of work systems as a defense against spam. it may be > possible to set up a proof of work filter for the web interface and > it's definitely possible for the e-mail interface. The appropriate > approach would use the proof of work puzzle as a proxy for > reputation system rather than a strict "sender-pays" model as found > in anti-spam. > > I am giving a talk on this topic at BBN Cambridge MA on Wednesday > the 24th. If people are interested, I will publish the slides with > some commentary.
It looks really interesting, but we do need a solution for this right now. I've had to add two more rewrite rules today because we are still being spammed by some morons. :-// So, the only way I can think of is to write some sort of script in order to access the trac.db file directly.. it'd be an awful work around though. -- Greetings, alo. http://www.alobbs.com _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://www.0x50.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cherokee
