[sage-devel] Re: spam trac tickets: 11171 and others

2011-04-11 Thread Dan Drake
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 at 12:10PM +0900, Dan Drake wrote: > Can someone with admin rights on the trac server delete those tickets? > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11171 > > and the tickets following are all spam. BTW, if someone could give me admin rights on trac, I'll delete these m

[sage-devel] Re: spam trac tickets: 11171 and others

2011-04-13 Thread kcrisman
We need to implement something, stat. #11191 and #11192 (both within the last hour) are spam. - kcrisman On Apr 12, 1:05 am, Keshav Kini wrote: > On Tuesday, April 12, 2011 12:16:48 PM UTC+8, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > > I wish I knew how to. I have admin rights, but don't see a way to delete

[sage-devel] Re: spam trac tickets: 11171 and others

2011-04-13 Thread kcrisman
On Apr 13, 9:27 pm, kcrisman wrote: > We need to implement something, stat.  #11191 and #11192 (both within > the last hour) are spam. > > And #11193 and #11194... on the plus side, this is a good way to make it look like we are fixing lots of bugs... not. -- To post to this group, send an ema

[sage-devel] Re: spam trac tickets: 11171 and others

2011-04-13 Thread Rob Beezer
On Apr 13, 10:19 pm, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > Hi Henrietta, > > Welcome to the Sage community. Before your trac account could be > setup, the account managers need the following information from you: > > * Real name > * Preferred username > * Preferred contact email address Hi Minh, Might this be

[sage-devel] Re: spam trac tickets: 11171 and others

2011-04-14 Thread Jason Grout
On 4/14/11 1:02 AM, Rob Beezer wrote: Workflow gets confusing when you want to cc someone on a ticket and you can't remember which variant they use on Trac, and I don't think Trac notices if you cc a nonexistent account (at least I've never seen any kind of notification like that). Yes, I know

Re: [sage-devel] Re: spam trac tickets: 11171 and others

2011-04-13 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi kcrisman, On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:27 AM, kcrisman wrote: > We need to implement something, stat. #11191 and #11192 (both within > the last hour) are spam. Solution: Remove the current captcha plugin. It's trivially broken with a human spammer creating spam accounts. Have a group of people

Re: [sage-devel] Re: spam trac tickets: 11171 and others

2011-04-13 Thread Francois Bissey
> Hi kcrisman, > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:27 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > We need to implement something, stat. #11191 and #11192 (both within > > the last hour) are spam. > > Solution: Remove the current captcha plugin. It's trivially broken > with a human spammer creating spam accounts. Have a

Re: [sage-devel] Re: spam trac tickets: 11171 and others

2011-04-13 Thread Dan Drake
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:07 +1000, Minh Van Nguyen wrote: > Have a group of people who could create accounts; I volunteer to be a > member of that group. Whenever someone wants an account, get the > person to email those people. I've been managing spam tickets a lot > lately; it's time consuming. I'

Re: [sage-devel] Re: spam trac tickets: 11171 and others

2011-04-13 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Dan, On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Dan Drake wrote: > I'm almost certainly overthinking this, but: we have people making > requests (for trac accounts) and a group of people who can fulfill the > requests. OK. First gather a support base of people who are willing to volunteer as account ma

Re: [sage-devel] Re: spam trac tickets: 11171 and others

2011-04-13 Thread John Cremona
This looks very like the authentication needed for someone to join a google group such as sage-nt (I get an email when anyone asks to join and have to make a decision). Can we somehow limit trac account creation to membership of a google group such as sage-trac? [while I wrote this, Minh's post a

Re: [sage-devel] Re: spam trac tickets: 11171 and others

2011-04-13 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi John, On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:37 PM, John Cremona wrote: > This looks very like the authentication needed for someone to join a > google group such as sage-nt (I get an email when anyone asks to join > and have to make a decision). Exactly. A group of managers/moderators screen requests for

Re: [sage-devel] Re: spam trac tickets: 11171 and others

2011-04-13 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Rob, On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: > Might this be a good time to suggest a person's Trac username be > identical to their Google Groups username and/or their email username? Yes. When mabshoff was managing trac accounts, one rule was: No leet handles. The welcome email c