On 17.1.2007, at 7.09, Michael Koziarski wrote:


Stupid question: Why doesn't some go ahead and make it so that you
have to register an account with a captcha in order to post to the
Rails trac? Is it that difficult?

Spammers are already manually registering accounts and then spamming
all the tickets they can find.   I don't believe it'll make a blind
bit of difference sadly.


Fortunately I think a lot of the existing spam in trac is from the days before the mandatory login:

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/1942#comment:3
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/1923#comment:15
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/1241

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