Re: Trac spam etc.

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Isak Savo<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Isak Savo<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Ultimately, it would be nice if Trac got some decent anti spam
>> features but they are really not fast in that aspect.
>>
>
> I found the TracSpamFilter plugin which I've installed and configured.
> http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/SpamFilter
>
> It uses a lot of techniques to detect spam in submitted content
> (Blacklisting, bayesan filter, aksimet, regex etc.) so hopefully this
> will lessen the amount of spam.
>

*sigh* .. the debian package of tracspamfilter did not work *at all*..
I don't think it even did anything - nothing in the logs, etc.

I've now installed another version outside of the debian repositories
(using easy_install) and it does in fact seem to work (at least it
does *something* with submissions). Let's see if the situation
improves...

Trac still sucks in that it doesn't allow removing comments. I can't
even begin to understand the reasoning behind that. What I do now is
remove everything manually in the db:

delete from ticket_change where author = 'whoeverpostedthespam';

this works quite ok, given that the spam pattern seem to be single
user posting 10-20 spam posts using the same account.

The funny thing is that it seems that this is NOT robot spam - the
posts look extremely genuine except that they contain one or more link
to some commercial site (usually Nike shoes for some reason...) so
let's see how the bayesan filter handles that :)

-Isak

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