I see the spam as being problematic in two different areas: 1. It "hurts the Internet" by upping the spammed site's pagerank and location in search results. Changing the meta robots tag will remove this issue, but it will also stop Gregarius trac tickets (and maybe changesets, etc. - I am not sure how targeted the meta tag change will be) from being indexed by Google and other search engines. 2. The spam comments aesthetically look bad. Admittedly, I have no idea how easy/difficult is it to delete ticket comments in Trac, so I am not sure whether it is simple or insanely hard to resolve this problem. Considering the relative dearth of Trac installations on the web, I think/hope that the level of spam commenting will be low enough that manual deletion + banning of IP addresses might be effective. I think that the benefits of having our Trac be included in search results is enough to make this a valid choice, assuming that Timo does not have to tear out his hair to delete comments. On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 09:07 -0600, Sameer D'Costa wrote: > If there are no solutions at the moment I vote for changing the meta so > that the spam is ineffective at least. > > Sameer > > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 02:19:57PM +0100, SUGLIANI Timo wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:19:57 +0100 > > From: SUGLIANI Timo <rannis at free.fr> > > To: gregarius-dev at sinless.org > > Subject: Re: [greg-dev] spam in the trac tickets > > Reply-To: gregarius-dev at sinless.org > > > > Plop ! > > > > Hmm this is quite an issue but without any solutions for the present > > moment... > > > > I'm actually waiting for trac 0.9 to be available in the stable branch > > of debian to upgrade everyhting and see if some new options are > > available for this... > > > > The only solution i can think at the moment is to change the meta to > > this : > > > > "<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW" />" > > > > I went to check this on the trac website, actually nothing is possible > > when using a "collaborative/wiki" system with anonymous "id"s. > > There looking at a brand new solution named "SpamLookup" > > > > http://bradchoate.com/weblog/2005/04/07/spamlookup > > > > The trac ticket about spam is this one : > > http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/ticket/1145 > > > > > > At the moment i think we should "bear" with it, or change the meta. > > Any ideas ? > > > > > > SUGLIANI Timo. > > > > > > Sameer D'Costa wrote: > > >It appears that spam has spread to the trac project mangement software. > > > > > >http://svn.gregarius.net/trac/ticket/183 > > > > > >Timo, what can we do about this? These pages have a google rank of 5, so > > >they > > >are quite attractive for spammers. On the other hand we do not want to > > >lose anonymous comments. I wish all software that required user input on > > >the internet used catchpas for anonymous users. > > > > > >Sameer > > >_______________________________________________ > > >gregarius-dev mailing list > > >gregarius-dev at sinless.org > > >http://sinless.org/mailman/listinfo/gregarius-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gregarius-dev mailing list > > gregarius-dev at sinless.org > > http://sinless.org/mailman/listinfo/gregarius-dev > _______________________________________________ > gregarius-dev mailing list > gregarius-dev at sinless.org > http://sinless.org/mailman/listinfo/gregarius-dev -- Martey Dodoo http://www.marteydodoo.com