[wdmmg-dev] removed user accounts

Rufus Pollock rufus.pollock at okfn.org
Wed May 18 09:06:24 UTC 2011


On 18 May 2011 09:46, Carsten Senger <senger at rehfisch.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I constantly remove spam from trac currently. In the admin interface saw
> some spam filtering options. Do we use them?

Yes we do. For reasons I can't work out though the spam system is not
logging (despite having tried to enable logging several times). I had
this problem in trac.okfn.org and trac.ckan.org but got it fixed).
will try again.

> I also removed all user accounts that looked like bot registrations. I hope
> I did not catch a real account. All accounts I have removed had E-Mail
> addresses from gmail, yahoo and mail15.
>
> Maybe we can just limit user registration in some way. I can look at the
> trac plugins and add one to our trac.

I think once we get spam filtering working it should work pretty well
(we're now getting close to 0 spam on trac.okfn.org ...)

Rufus




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