Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-05-29 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! http://fedoraproject.

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-05-29 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

Summary/Minutes from today's Fedora Infrastructure meeting (2014-05-29)

2014-05-29 Thread Kevin Fenzi
#fedora-meeting: Infrastructure (2014-05-29) Meeting started by nirik at 18:00:12 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2014-05-29/infrastructure.2014-05-29-18.0

Sorry for any bounceback emails, my email was down but its back now

2014-05-29 Thread Chris A. Roberts
Hey Everyone, Sorry if anyone got any bounceback emails from my email address. The place I had my email server hosted went down for 3 days, then everything got corrupted which took 2 days to get up and running. After another week of going back and forth trying to get the custom ISO images loade

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-05-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
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 at least until we can find a more effective anti-spam solution. > I have done that now. Lets see if it helps Rahul

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 > wrote: > >> Hi >> >> FWIW, I have deleted well over a dozen accounts and hundred >> questions in the last few days and several new user accounts >> ev

Re: Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

2014-05-29 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 29 May 2014 06:11:36 -0400 Rahul Sundaram 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 scripted. Some

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 d

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 and on