Hi Ben, Could we not have a captcha instead of a reject, to avoid false positives? That would require no training.
Since I assume most Trac spammers are extremely unsophisticated, a simple hardcoded question like "What programming language is GC all about?" may be sufficient. On 15/04/16 17:28, Ben Gamari wrote: > > Hello GHCers, > > As you may have noticed, the GHC Trac instance is currently being hit > with a significant amount of spam traffic recently. I believe I've > cleared up most of the garbage and the filter configuration has been > tightened so that future spam attacks will be easier to quell. > > Of course, this tightening means that there is a greater chance of false > positives. If you do find that your ticket comments or Wiki edits are > being rejected by the spam filter, please notify either Austin or me so > that we can train the filter on your example. > > Cheers, > > - Ben > > > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs