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

Subject: Re: [boost] [Trac] We're getting spammed!
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-12 09:51:33

On 5/12/2010 8:38 AM, Jeremiah Willcock wrote:
> 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.

ASFAICT it's working fine. The Akismet key that's there is the one Doug 
G. set up AFAIK.

If only there was an easy way to find existing SPAM so we could delete 
it :-\

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