Re: [boost] [Trac] Catch-22: Captcha Errors on legitimate submissions (fwd)

Subject: Re: [boost] [Trac] Catch-22: Captcha Errors on legitimate submissions (fwd)
From: DongInn Kim (dikim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-11-01 23:08:33

Hi,

I have looked into the trac admin page to see if there is anything useful for this issue and I found that the current Jim Bell’s tickets and comments were filtered out as a spam. 
http://www.crest.iu.edu/~dikim/spamfilter.png

The spamfilter on trac is not perfect. It just filters out anything if they meet some criteria that the filter setup. I have not setup the filter criteria (Yes, I have installed the spam filter as you guys requested).

It seems that it needs to train the spam filter with some admin’s interaction on the filtered tickets as a spam or ham.

I just tried to make four Jim Bell’s ticket/comments selected as a ham. I hope the spam filter does a little better job on Jim Bell’s ticket next time.

The following users are the admin of the boost trac system and I hope that they need to train the spam filter from time to time in case this kind of incidents happen.

az_sw_dude     admin                  
bemandawes     admin                  
dave           admin                  
dgregor        admin                                  
eric_niebler   admin                  
grafik         admin                  
johnmaddock    admin                  
marshall       admin

-PS-
I do not follow this mailing list. If someone forwards an email to me like this, I can see what happens.
 
Regards,

--
- DongInn
On Nov 1, 2013, at 9:35 PM, Jeremiah Willcock <jewillco_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jim Bell <Jim_at_[hidden]>
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 18:25:01 -0500
> Subject: [boost] [Trac] Catch-22: Captcha Errors on legitimate submissions
> Reply-To: boost_at_[hidden]
> X-perlmx-spam: Gauge=X, Probability=10%, Report='
> TO_IN_SUBJECT 0.5, REPLYTO_FROM_DIFF_ADDY 0.1, HTML_00_01 0.05,
>    HTML_00_10 0.05, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_1000_LESS 0,
>    BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS 0,
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>    __URI_NO_WWW 0, __URI_NS , __USER_AGENT 0'
> 
> I had a ticket attachment and comment both rejected from a "captcha error," so I decided to open a Trac ticket on the captcha mechanism itself. But guess what? THAT ticket was also rejected by the captcha error.  Catch-22!
> 
> So I'm posting it here.
> 
> I get:
> --------------------------------
> Captcha Error
> Submission rejected as potential spam (StopForumSpam says this is spam (username))
> 
> Trac thinks your submission might be Spam. To prove otherwise please provide a response to the following.
> --------------------------------
> 
> But there's nothing following to which to provide a response. Is it mis-configured?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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