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

Subject: Re: [boost] [Trac] Catch-22: Captcha Errors on legitimate submissions (fwd)
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-11-02 00:54:01

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:08 PM, DongInn Kim <dikim_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> 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 the spam filter has attained some considerable new types of
filtering, which are not tweaked to Boost's use cases.

> 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.
>

I think that only works for reporting back to services like askimet. Which
did not actually play a role in filtering the posts.

> 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
>

I used to pay close attention to the spam filtering. But got tired of doing
that.. Especially after the spam went down to a minimal trickle.

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