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

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> 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> 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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