Re: GHC Trac spam filter is rejecting new registrations

2016-10-17 Thread Robert Henderson
be a bug or issue with a recent release of the Trac software? >> I've noticed people complaining about the same problem on other websites >> that use Trac, e.g.: >> > It's not a bug; it's just that spammers are quite good at emulating > humans and unfortunately Trac

Re: GHC Trac spam filter is rejecting new registrations

2016-10-15 Thread Ben Gamari
t's not a bug; it's just that spammers are quite good at emulating humans and unfortunately Trac doesn't have very strong tools for catching them. We use a Bayesian spam classifier to catch Trac spam, but sadly it's imperfect. Thanks for bringi

GHC Trac spam filter is rejecting new registrations

2016-10-15 Thread Robert Henderson
Hi, I've been trying to register a new account on GHC Trac in order to submit a bug report, and I'm getting the following error: Submission rejected as potential spam SpamBayes determined spam probability of 90.82% Could this be a bug or issue with a recent release of the Trac software? I've

Trac Spam

2016-06-30 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, As you may have noticed we were hit with another bout of Trac spam today. I've tightened the spam filter up a bit further and things now seem to be once again under control. Of course, tightening up the spam filter may come at a cost. While I've tried my best to setup

Trac spam

2016-06-30 Thread Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
If someone could kill this spate of Trac spam, it’d be great. Simon ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs

Re: Trac spam

2016-04-15 Thread Ben Gamari
Simon Peyton Jones writes: > | I've spent a few hours today amending the spam filter list and trying > | to expunge as much as I can manually. Unfortunately doing this via the > | web interface is an incredibly labor intensive process, so I've > | suspended my efforts until I can get shell ac

Re: Trac spam

2016-04-15 Thread Ben Gamari
Simon Peyton Jones writes: > | I've spent a few hours today amending the spam filter list and trying > | to expunge as much as I can manually. Unfortunately doing this via the > | web interface is an incredibly labor intensive process, so I've > | suspended my efforts until I can get shell ac

Trac spam

2016-04-15 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
| I've spent a few hours today amending the spam filter list and trying | to expunge as much as I can manually. Unfortunately doing this via the | web interface is an incredibly labor intensive process, so I've | suspended my efforts until I can get shell access to our Trac | installation. Do

Re: Trac spam

2014-07-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 14.07.2014, 09:43 +0200 schrieb Herbert Valerio Riedel: > On 2014-07-14 at 09:34:07 +0200, Simon Peyton Jones wrote: > > Is it possible to stop spam on GHC's Trac? > > A few days ago, bots/users registering via @yahoo.com addresses managed > to break the (rather simple) text-ba

Re: Trac spam

2014-07-14 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
On 2014-07-14 at 09:34:07 +0200, Simon Peyton Jones wrote: > Is it possible to stop spam on GHC's Trac? A few days ago, bots/users registering via @yahoo.com addresses managed to break the (rather simple) text-based algebraic captcha. I guess we need to up the game and maybe switch to a (simple) H

Trac spam

2014-07-14 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
Dear GHC devs Is it possible to stop spam on GHC's Trac? Simon -Original Message- From: ghc-tickets [mailto:ghc-tickets-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of GHC Sent: 14 July 2014 04:24 Cc: ghc-tick...@haskell.org Subject: [GHC] #9310: This Cleanse Ultima is very beneficial to regulate a go