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 11:20:04

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!

One thing I noticed on your new entries is that they have unescaped 
periods.  Note that the list in BadContent is of Python regular 
expressions so periods that are meant to be literal should be escaped.

-- Jeremiah Willcock