Frank Schima writes: > Hi all, > > > I just spent the last half hour closing about 40 spam tickets which arrived > last night - most in a 15 minute period. We need to do something about the > spam problem because it seems to be getting worse. I just tested creating a > new account and only a simple email verification goes out. I tested that I > could indeed not login until I clicked the verification URL that was emailed > to me. What else can we do about this? > > While I was wasting my time doing the same repetitive keystrokes on most of > the spam, I have some ideas which might be nice: > - Implement a captcha per ticket #42484 [1] > - Implement a rather onerous password policy to make it harder to sign up. > Right now we have no password policy. > - Delay maybe 30 minutes before sending out the verification email. > - Add a “mark spam” button to the wiki which changes the summary, > description and keywords to “spam” and closes the ticket as invalid in a > single click - maybe with a checkbox next to it to prevent mistakenly > pressing it? Obviously only Macports committers should be able to do this. > - For all new accounts, have a 24 (48 or 72?) hour waiting period where the > user can only create a single ticket or add a single comment. > - If we want to get serious, we could have the registration page have some > fields such as “why are you creating an account?” and have all registrations > be approved by a Macports committer. But that would be a last resort only.
Yes, please. I am getting really tired of spam in my inbox. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
