Re: Spam filtering

Gotcha. On Sunday, April 17, 2016, Ben Gamari wrote: > Carter Schonwald > writes: > > > Question: are we talking captcha or REcaptcha? > > My understanding is that REcaptcha is better than old school captcha > > > > Have we

Re: Spam filtering

Carter Schonwald writes: > Question: are we talking captcha or REcaptcha? > My understanding is that REcaptcha is better than old school captcha > > Have we evaluated it as an option? > http://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html > We are using a GHC-specific

Re: Spam filtering

Question: are we talking captcha or REcaptcha? My understanding is that REcaptcha is better than old school captcha Have we evaluated it as an option? http://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html On Saturday, April 16, 2016, Ben Gamari wrote: > Niklas Hambüchen

Re: Spam filtering

Niklas Hambüchen writes: > 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

Re: Spam filtering

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

Spam filtering

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,