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

Cool!


On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Ray Racine <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> 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>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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ____________________
>>>>   Racket Users list:
>>>>   http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> ____________________
>>   Racket Users list:
>>   http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
>>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/attachments/20130316/23e8c843/attachment.html>