lighty's life: spamfilter on the right track now

spamfilter on the right track now

moo — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:44:00 +0000

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.

"spamfilter on the right track now" by moo

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:01:10 +0000

the spamfitler plugin in trac was developed by http://trac.edgewall.org/, captcha is not integrated yet

"spamfilter on the right track now" by Marki

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:57:31 +0000

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...

"spamfilter on the right track now" by Ben Maurer

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:05:12 +0000

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 :-).