Spam filtering

[Niklas Hambüchen]

Hi Ben,

Could we not have a captcha instead of a reject, to avoid false positives? That would require no training.

Since I assume most Trac spammers are extremely unsophisticated, a simple hardcoded question like "What programming language is GC all about?" may be sufficient.

On 15/04/16 17:28, Ben Gamari wrote:
>
> Hello GHCers,
>
> As you may have noticed, the GHC Trac instance is currently being hit
> with a significant amount of spam traffic recently. I believe I've
> cleared up most of the garbage and the filter configuration has been
> tightened so that future spam attacks will be easier to quell.
>
> Of course, this tightening means that there is a greater chance of false
> positives. If you do find that your ticket comments or Wiki edits are
> being rejected by the spam filter, please notify either Austin or me so
> that we can train the filter on your example.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
>
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