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 -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org