Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Jim Henderson <hendersj@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:52:45 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:

> > The challenge is that registering to post doesn't mean a spammer won't
> > get through; in fact, a fair amount of the spam junk that hits the
> > forums comes from people who have registered first and then post a
> > handful of messages (there are a few different strategies those
> > spammers use; we do ban them fairly quickly when they are reported, but
> > we can't "un-send" the messages that would be forwarded to the ML in
> > such a configuration).
>
> I'm not too worried about spam - spam is a fact of life, but if the
> novell/bugzilla registration process uses a decent CAPTCHA, much can be
> eliminated right then and there.

What I've found is that the spammers tend to be individuals rather than 
automated bots - the CAPTCHA does good at filtering the bots out, but 
I've been honestly surprised at the number of "iPod video conversion", 
"BlueRay Ripper" spam posts we get in the forums that originate from the 
web interface.

That would be something to discuss further in Andreas' suggested thread 
(I'm thinking over how to present the idea to start that thread).

Jim

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