[racket] planet bug reporting system: taken over by spam

One idea could be to route the bug reports through the mailing list, 
since the list seems to deal with spam pretty well.

On 03/16/2013 09:22 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
> Cool!
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Ray Racine <ray.racine at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ray.racine at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hyperloglog with a sliding window on the IP or src/dest connection
>     ports.
>     http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/FlFuGaMe07.pdf
>     Page 140, Cool but simple algo to implement.  Could be added to
>     the Racket HTTP Server as a DOS capability.
>
>
>     On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Robby Findler
>     <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu <mailto:robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>>
>     wrote:
>
>         Woah! I should have checked: I think they were all coming from
>         the same ip address. I've blocked that IP address and lets see
>         what happens.
>
>         Thanks.
>
>         Robby
>
>
>         On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Laurent
>         <laurent.orseau at gmail.com <mailto:laurent.orseau at gmail.com>>
>         wrote:
>
>             I don't how much of this is done right now, or is
>             feasible, but just in case here are some suggestions:
>             - Don't allow more than 5-10 bug reports in one hour from
>             the same IP, with possible ban (+ visual warning)
>             - Use something like SpamAssassin, tuned toward bug-reporting
>             - Restrict bug reporting to registered users only (but
>             this is probably a bad policy)
>             - Make the user pay $1 for each bug report (+ optionally
>             introduce random bugs in Racket), and pay me back 50% for
>             the idea.
>
>             Laurent
>
>
>             On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Robby Findler
>             <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu
>             <mailto:robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>> wrote:
>
>                 Hi all: I'm sorry to say that I've just disabled
>                 planet's bug reporting system. Over the last 24 hours,
>                 we've gotten about 2,000 spam bug reports. (They are
>                 all gone now.)
>
>                 I'm also sorry to report that I deleted bug number 509
>                 by accident (it was not spam).
>
>                 The bug report system was using recaptcha (still is
>                 there, actually if you want to see:
>                 http://planet.racket-lang.org/trac/newticket) but
>                 apparently that's now been broken.
>
>                 I'm not sure what's the right approach to take in
>                 fixing this, so if people have suggestions I'm all
>                 ears and motivated in a way that I wasn't last time
>                 this came up on the list.
>
>                 Robby
>
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