Hi. > I can't run trac without the accountmanager (way too much spam), but > while it is unstable like this the web site is not very useable (anonymous > editing disabled because of spam). what can I do?
My 0.02$: you should reconsider the measures you take to fight spam. A good anti-spam measure ideally is one that prevents the bad guys from doing bad things while having no impact on legitimate users. In that terms the idea to force all (even the good) users to register before they can contribute to your site is a pretty bad solution. In addition, spam bots become more and more clever, and we already saw some that were able to register before they start spamvertizing. Since you're running Trac 0.10, you should evaluate the SpamFilter plugin [1]. It has various filtering strategies, such as regex filtering or querying IP blacklists. ScallyWhack [2] might be another option; that's a rule set for mod_security to catch spam posted to trac-driven websites. ScallyWhack is work in progress - the rules work great on madwifi.org for some time now, but the documentation must be improved (which is what I'm working on at this time). Last but not least both options might be combined to provide better results. Bye, Mike [1] http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/SpamFilter [2] http://scallywhack.otaku42.de --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" 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-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
