Re: [boost] [Trac] We're getting spammed!

Subject: Re: [boost] [Trac] We're getting spammed!
From: Jeremiah Willcock (jewillco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-12 09:38:31

On Wed, 12 May 2010, John Maddock wrote:

>> Dong Inn and I installed the filter from 
>> http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/SpamFilter (without Akismet or Captcha 
>> support).  One of the moderators should add relevant regular expressions to 
>> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/BadContent then make it read-only; I 
>> seeded it with the list from Trac's own BadContent page.  I added a bunch 
>> of junk comments for testing; apparently those can't be removed until we 
>> update Trac so they'll have to stay for now.
>
> Updated, and made read only: thanks!
>
> Sounds like the Akismet filter would be useful to have as well though?

Did you have an API key before?  There is one on there that seems to have 
been left over from the previous install.  If it is valid, Akismet might 
be working.  I didn't know you had the spam filter plugin installed before 
and so I thought Akismet wasn't set up, but it might be.

-- Jeremiah Willcock