I think that despite its huge problems, a CAPTCHA-protected registration system may be a viable option (using in conjunction with SpamFilter). Either that or relax the filters and conscript an army of watchers to delete spam as its submitted.
--Noah On Sep 18, 2006, at 9:27 PM, Matt Good wrote: > > Manuzhai wrote: >> On 9/19/06, Lloyd D Budd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I thought I would give a little love to >>> http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracUsers by first alphabetizing the >>> A's. Akismet ate it as spam. See attached for the diff. I am glad I >>> was not really ambitious ;-) >> >> I would like to add that a ticket I was creating the other day was >> rejected as LED spam. This is really annoying... Could less intrusive >> (fewer false positives) methods be used to prevent spam? > > Ah, someone added just "LED" to the list of blocked patterns, which is > probably not good since it may come up in other contexts (e.g. SLED is > Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop IIRC). > > Akismet does seem to have a tendency to block some IPs randomly at > times which is annoying, though unfortunately it's really the only > working option we have at this time. The last time we tried disabling > Akismet filtering we got nailed pretty quickly with a bunch of > spam, so > turning it off isn't an option either. > > I'm going to continue to look into the spam filtering and see what we > can do to improve it. Ugh. I really wish there was some way to make > these guys pay for all the economic damage they cause. > > -- Matt Good > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
