Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-08-12 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: I've filed a trac ticket to track this: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/4483 Thanks. FWIW, I have disabled content moderation in Ask Fedora since the persistent spammer we had seems to have given up (one can

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-08-10 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 08:58 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: This was merged upstream, and released as 1.4.2 : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/stopforumspam/ Thanks Michael! Ankur, can you take a look at this,

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-07-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: This was merged upstream, and released as 1.4.2 : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/stopforumspam/ Thanks Michael! Ankur, can you take a look at this, please? Appreciate your help. Rahul

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-07-12 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 21 juin 2014 à 17:32 +0200, Michael Scherer a écrit : Le mardi 17 juin 2014 à 20:47 -0400, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : Hi On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Yeah. If it supported X-Forwarded-For headers we could have it

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-06-21 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mardi 17 juin 2014 à 20:47 -0400, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : Hi On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Yeah. If it supported X-Forwarded-For headers we could have it use those to get the users real address. @Ankur, would you

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-06-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
HI On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: I pushed directly a PR for that: https://github.com/benjaoming/django-stopforumspam/pull/7 However, I didn't test it, so that likely mean it is buggy and I forgot something :) Thanks! Rahul

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-06-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
HI On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: If we can get the package to look at a header, we might be able to add a proxied-for header with the real ip in it? So, what is the solution here? File a RFE upstream for functionality? Rahul

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-06-17 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:23:42 -0400 Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: HI On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: If we can get the package to look at a header, we might be able to add a proxied-for header with the real ip in it? So, what is the solution here?

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-06-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Yeah. If it supported X-Forwarded-For headers we could have it use those to get the users real address. @Ankur, would you mind filing this request upstream? Rahul ___ infrastructure mailing

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-06-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Chris A. Roberts wrote: If we can use askimet we should go that route, I talked to suehle and we can get a membership $5 for the commercial site license. It works wonders on the Fedora Magazine. Interesting. Fedora Magazine is hosted within Fedora

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-06-16 Thread Chris A. Roberts
16, 2014 9:22:41 AM Subject: Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam Hi On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Chris A. Roberts wrote: If we can use askimet we should go that route, I talked to suehle and we can get a membership $5 for the commercial site license. It works wonders on the Fedora

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-06-15 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 15:06:31 +1000 Ankur Sinha sanjay.an...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 10:26 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/stopforumspam/ claims that you can add your own ip address to the db using django admin. If that is feasible, that gives you a

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-06-15 Thread Chris A. Roberts
Cc: ankursi...@fedoraproject.org Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2014 11:45:30 PM Subject: Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 15:06:31 +1000 Ankur Sinha sanjay.an...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 10:26 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/stopforumspam

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-06-14 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 10:26 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/stopforumspam/ claims that you can add your own ip address to the db using django admin. If that is feasible, that gives you a quick way to test it I've installed the package and made the required changes to

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-06-03 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Sat, 2014-05-31 at 15:26 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Do you know what the 'Enable content moderation' setting does? If this just moderates all new questions, perhaps we could do this? Then, their spam wouldn't ever get out

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-06-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote: http://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/python-django-stopforumspam/el5/ I'll install it on staging when I get the time. How would I create spam to test it, though? https://pypi.python.org/pypi/stopforumspam/ claims that you can add your

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-06-02 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Fri, 2014-05-30 at 16:01 +1000, Ankur Sinha wrote: Submitted stopforumspam for review: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1103034 The package has been approved. I've built for F20 and rawhide. It builds on EL too, but I haven't requested a branch yet. Could someone please take a

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-06-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/python-django-stopforumspam.git/tree/python-django-stopforumspam.spec Before you branch for EPEL, you can use a scratch build perhaps in the staging environment and confirm that it works as intended?

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-06-02 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 21:45 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Before you branch for EPEL, you can use a scratch build perhaps in the staging environment and confirm that it works as intended? We don't want to end up maintaining things that don't suit our needs I've built successfully for el5 on

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-05-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 1:43 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Sadly they just did twice. ;( I blocked them in less than a minute, but they are definitely not gone. I jinxed it! In any case, is it feasible for us to consider recaptcha support? About six patches we can cherry pick from upstream

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-05-31 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 31 May 2014 02:23:49 -0400 Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 1:43 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Sadly they just did twice. ;( I blocked them in less than a minute, but they are definitely not gone. I jinxed it! In any case, is it feasible

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-05-31 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 31 May 2014 17:09:00 -0400 Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Do you know what the 'Enable content moderation' setting does? If this just moderates all new questions, perhaps we could do this? Then, their spam

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-05-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Has it changed anything? Doesn't seem to have... It does. I found some spam and regular posts in the moderation queue and had to approve/reject them explicitly. Not all posts go through the queue however. Perhaps it is based on karma

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-05-30 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 08:29 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Would need packaging and testing... Submitted stopforumspam for review: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1103034 -- Thanks, Warm regards, Ankur (FranciscoD) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Join Fedora! Come talk

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-05-30 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 08:29 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Would need packaging and testing... Is captcha worth using? I can look at packaging that up too. -- Thanks, Warm regards, Ankur (FranciscoD) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Join Fedora! Come talk to us!

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-05-30 Thread Akshay Vyas
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Ankur Sinha sanjay.an...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 08:29 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Would need packaging and testing... Is captcha worth using? I can look at packaging that up too. - I don't think captcha will work, these are not bots, these are

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-05-30 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Fri, 2014-05-30 at 15:22 +0530, Akshay Vyas wrote: I don't think captcha will work, these are not bots, these are the normal human who is intentional posting adds n all kinds of marketing material I'd expect them to be bots. A human wouldn't be able to post 50 questions in 3 minutes :/ --

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-05-30 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 30 May 2014 06:14, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/30/2014 06:23 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: On Fri, 2014-05-30 at 15:22 +0530, Akshay Vyas wrote: I don't think captcha will work, these are not bots, these are the normal

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-05-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Stephen John Smoogen I would say finding throttle software which allows one post per minute to make it more expensive for them to post a lot. The goal is to make it expensive enough that they will want to go somewhere else versus keep at it here. I

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-05-30 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 31 May 2014 00:42:03 -0400 Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: If they're all coming in through Yahoo, then disabling that would be a stopgap

Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-05-29 Thread Ankur Sinha
Hi, Of late, Ask Fedora is being badgered by spam. They seem to open multiple accounts and post as many as 50 spam questions at a time. Is there something we can do to tackle this? For the time being, we're manually blocking the user and deleting each question one by one. It's a lot of work

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-05-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi FWIW, I have deleted well over a dozen accounts and hundred questions in the last few days and several new user accounts even after this mail was posted. It is likely a single persistent spammer and perhaps scripted. Some serious measures are needed at this point since some of us constantly

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-05-29 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 29 May 2014 06:11:36 -0400 Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi FWIW, I have deleted well over a dozen accounts and hundred questions in the last few days and several new user accounts even after this mail was posted. It is likely a single persistent spammer and perhaps

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-05-29 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/29/2014 10:29 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2014 06:11:36 -0400 Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi FWIW, I have deleted well over a dozen accounts and hundred questions in the last few days and several new user