[SAC] Trac Spam

Folks,

I see the trac-spammers have found the OSGeo trac instance. The last
couple anonymous changes to the following include hidden link spam.

http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1

I have disabled anonymous ticket creation and modification on the osgeo
trac instance. Let me know if a different solution seems more appropriate.

Best regards,
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and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org

Hello,

Mapbender developer Michael Schulz informed us about a possible solution (via captcha images). This is in develeopment, see

http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/sandbox/spam-filter-captcha

This way anonymous ticket creation would still be possible. Maybe we should keep an eye on the development.

Cheers

Christoph

Frank Warmerdam schrieb:

Folks,

I see the trac-spammers have found the OSGeo trac instance. The last
couple anonymous changes to the following include hidden link spam.

http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1

I have disabled anonymous ticket creation and modification on the osgeo
trac instance. Let me know if a different solution seems more appropriate.

Best regards,

Christoph Baudson (WhereGroup) wrote:

Hello,

Mapbender developer Michael Schulz informed us about a possible solution (via captcha images). This is in develeopment, see

http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/sandbox/spam-filter-captcha

This way anonymous ticket creation would still be possible. Maybe we should keep an eye on the development.

Christoph,

I have added a note about this on the SAC Trac page:

   http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Trac_Instances

I'm always a bit leery about adding plugins to our Trac instances as each
one is likely to make future upgrades more complex. But if it is needed
this might be worthwhile (when ready).

Best regards,
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I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org