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 09:52:39

On Wed, 12 May 2010, Rene Rivera wrote:

> 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 :-\

There was a list of a few earlier in the thread.  I'll check for more 
later today.

-- Jeremiah Willcock