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    [greg-dev] spam in the trac tickets

    Timo, List, hello.
    
    I've been discussing this issue with Sameer over IM, and here is quick
    summary of the different options we have:
    
    * Clean the trac database with a tool like this one:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlitemanager/
    Since we're not getting *that* much spam yet, this could be a viable solution.
    
    Timo, could you install that tool on the svn server and password-protect it?
    
    
    * Hack trac and add a captcha to the key forms. I could take care of
    this, I think.
    
    * Ban spammers on an IP basis. This is unreliable, actually. We'd have
    to take a look at apache's logfile and see where the spammers have
    been coming from.
    
    * Ban spammers at apache configuration level, by checking the POST
    data against some keywords. This is rather effective, and doesn't
    require much work.
    
    * Hide the Trac web interface behind a HTTP Basic Auth form and give
    out the password to everyone, hoping the spams are automated and not
    hand-crafted.
    
    
    
    What do you guys think of these solutions? Timo, do you think I could
    get ssh access to the server and take a look around?
    
     -m
    
    
    Posted by Marco Bonetti [reply] at Fri Nov 25 19:13:04 CET 2005