spamfilter on the right track now 3

Posted by moo Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:44:00 GMT

We had enabled spamfilter in http://trac.lighttpd.net/ long ago and it was doing fine blocking lots of spam messages, but I didn’t notice that it blocked some ham messages too by rasing “your ip is blacklisted by sc.surbl.org” error.

I appreciate your help when you try hard clicking the submit button for wiki/tickets and am sorry for blocking you.

I spent some time tweaking karma settings in trac spamfilter recently. It was a bit hard to get what karma is even by asking the ppl in #trac, until i read the source. Anyway, it looks better now, and we’ll keep watching the monitor and see if there’s something mis-blocked, and tweak the settings accordingly. You may also register and login to get pass the spam checking.

You provided feedback. We listened.

Thanks.

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  1. Ben Maurer Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:05:12 GMT
    You might want to look into using a CAPTCHA if you get caught by the spam filter. reCAPTCHA (http://recaptcha.net) is very happily running on lighttpd, so you can even get more lighty goodness :-).
  2. Marki Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:57:31 GMT
    It is not hard for spammers to defeat CAPTCHAs... But I have seen one really nice yesterday - it was animated GIF, it looked like no letter was entire in one frame, so the only possibility would be somehow combining all frames and then analyzing them...
  3. moo Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:01:10 GMT
    the spamfitler plugin in trac was developed by http://trac.edgewall.org/, captcha is not integrated yet
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