#1145: Provide link spam prevention
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Reporter: Matthew Good <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Owner: jonas
Type: enhancement | Status: reopened
Priority: high | Milestone:
Component: general | Version: 0.8
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: link spam |
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Comment (by anonymous):
If you think that deleting comment spam is a viable way to fight spam,
then you have no idea about the potentially enormous volume of spam that
you may have to deal with. Basically there are just two situations:
a) your site has entered one or more publicly traded list(s) of potential
spam targets - in that case, no amount of time you spend on comment
deleting will make/keep your site functional again, or
b) your site has ''not yet'' entered such a list, in which case it is just
a matter of time until it will.
So #454 is completely irrelevant for stopping spam - if you think
otherwise, you have just not experienced real spam yet. On the other hand,
some method to ''prevent'' spam would be very much
needed.
As soon as some community software becomes popular, it will also become
the target of spammers. This has happened with popular blog software, and
it will happen with trac eventually. The only reason why public-facing
trac installations can survive (yet) despite the lack of spam prevention
is the (still) relatively low popularity/awareness of trac.
My personal suggestion would be to have an option to disallow external
links, possibly configurable (whether for wiki, tickets, both, whether for
anonymous users or all ..).
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Ticket URL: <http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/ticket/1145>
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