Spam via Trac

[Stefan Reinauer]

Hi,

Trac seems to become a significant spam problem on the otherwise
completely spam-free mailing list. Should we consider requiring accounts
for trac as we do for the wiki?

Best regards,

Stefan

[Joseph Smith]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:48:34 +0100, Stefan Reinauer 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Trac seems to become a significant spam problem on the otherwise
> completely spam-free mailing list. Should we consider requiring accounts
> for trac as we do for the wiki?

Is there a way for Trac to have email confirmation before a ticket is
submitted? That should stop the spam?

[Peter Stuge]

Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Trac seems to become a significant spam problem on the otherwise
> completely spam-free mailing list. Should we consider requiring
> accounts for trac as we do for the wiki?

Very few people are using Trac unfortunately. I generally dislike web
applications, strongly, but Trac can be quite useful. I wish more
were using it.

It would be sad to have to close it to registered users only, but
maybe it's the only solution? It's not totally uncommon with other
bug trackers.

Would an email confirm be enough to create a new user?

And could the email account somehow be coalesced with the from-svn
account when the user turns into a developer?

//Peter

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi,

On 24.02.2009 12:48, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Trac seems to become a significant spam problem on the otherwise
> completely spam-free mailing list. Should we consider requiring accounts
> for trac as we do for the wiki?

Would requiring accounts for posting content with hyperlinks (except for
a whitelist containing coreboot.org and various pastebins) fix the problem?
IIRC all spam posts had hyperlinks inside.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[Corey Osgood]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 24.02.2009 12:48, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > Trac seems to become a significant spam problem on the otherwise
> > completely spam-free mailing list. Should we consider requiring accounts
> > for trac as we do for the wiki?
>
> Would requiring accounts for posting content with hyperlinks (except for
> a whitelist containing coreboot.org and various pastebins) fix the
> problem?
> IIRC all spam posts had hyperlinks inside.

IMO, I get more spam from other sources daily then I've seen from Trac in
the last 6 months. Unless the problem gets worse, my 2 cents is to deal with
a little spam and avoid crippling Trac.

-Corey