Re: GHC Trac spam filter is rejecting new registrations

[Robert Henderson]

Thanks for fixing that, registration seems to be working fine now.

Cheers,
Rob

On 15/10/16 16:38, Ben Gamari wrote:
> Robert Henderson  writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been trying to register a new account on GHC Trac in order to
>> submit a bug report, and I'm getting the following error:
>>
>>   Submission rejected as potential spam
>>   SpamBayes determined spam probability of 90.82%
>>
> Oh dear, very sorry about that. I've adjusted the spam filter
> configuration; can you try again?
> 
>> Could this be a bug or issue with a recent release of the Trac software?
>> I've noticed people complaining about the same problem on other websites
>> that use Trac, e.g.:
>>
> It's not a bug; it's just that spammers are quite good at emulating
> humans and unfortunately Trac doesn't have very strong tools for
> catching them. We use a Bayesian spam classifier to catch Trac spam, but
> sadly it's imperfect.
> 
> Thanks for bringing up your issue!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Ben
> 
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Re: GHC Trac spam filter is rejecting new registrations

[Ben Gamari]

Robert Henderson  writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to register a new account on GHC Trac in order to
> submit a bug report, and I'm getting the following error:
>
>   Submission rejected as potential spam
>   SpamBayes determined spam probability of 90.82%
>
Oh dear, very sorry about that. I've adjusted the spam filter
configuration; can you try again?

> Could this be a bug or issue with a recent release of the Trac software?
> I've noticed people complaining about the same problem on other websites
> that use Trac, e.g.:
>
It's not a bug; it's just that spammers are quite good at emulating
humans and unfortunately Trac doesn't have very strong tools for
catching them. We use a Bayesian spam classifier to catch Trac spam, but
sadly it's imperfect.

Thanks for bringing up your issue!

Cheers,

- Ben


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