<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> One idea could be to route the bug reports through the mailing list, since the list seems to deal with spam pretty well.<br> <br> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/16/2013 09:22 AM, Robby Findler wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CAL3TdOMPRd90RzvoA6L3KxXBR-vjxR0gmVvdyg-60B_ZCsM9Mg@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr">Cool!</div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Ray Racine <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ray.racine@gmail.com" target="_blank">ray.racine@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="ltr">Hyperloglog with a sliding window on the IP or src/dest connection ports.  <div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/FlFuGaMe07.pdf" target="_blank">http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/FlFuGaMe07.pdf</a><br> </div> <div>Page 140, Cool but simple algo to implement.  Could be added to the Racket HTTP Server as a DOS capability.</div> </div> <div class="HOEnZb"> <div class="h5"> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote"> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Robby Findler <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu" target="_blank">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="ltr">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. <div> <br> </div> <div>Thanks.<span><font color="#888888"><br> <div><br> </div> <div>Robby</div> </font></span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Laurent <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:laurent.orseau@gmail.com" target="_blank">laurent.orseau@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="ltr"> <div> <div> <div>I don't how much of this is done right now, or is feasible, but just in case here are some suggestions:<br> - Don't allow more than 5-10 bug reports in one hour from the same IP, with possible ban (+ visual warning)<br> </div> - Use something like SpamAssassin, tuned toward bug-reporting<br> </div> <div>- Restrict bug reporting to registered users only (but this is probably a bad policy)<br> </div> - Make the user pay $1 for each bug report (+ optionally introduce random bugs in Racket), and pay me back 50% for the idea.<br> <br> </div> Laurent<br> </div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote"> <div> <div>On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Robby Findler <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu" target="_blank">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br> </div> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div> <div> <div dir="ltr">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.) <div> <div><br> </div> <div>I'm also sorry to report that I deleted bug number 509 by accident (it was not spam).</div> </div> <div><br> </div> <div>The bug report system was using recaptcha (still is there, actually if you want to see: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://planet.racket-lang.org/trac/newticket" target="_blank">http://planet.racket-lang.org/trac/newticket</a>) but apparently that's now been broken.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>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.</div> <span><font color="#888888"> <div><br> </div> <div>Robby</div> <div><br> </div> </font></span></div> <br> </div> </div> ____________________<br>   Racket Users list:<br>   <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a><br> <br> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> </div> </div> <br> ____________________<br>   Racket Users list:<br>   <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a><br> <br> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> <br> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <br> <pre wrap="">____________________ Racket Users list: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> </pre> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html>