Matthew Good wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 21:01 +0200, Jonas Borgström wrote: >> Waldemar Kornewald wrote: >>> Hi, >>> unfortunately, I cannot comment on any tickets, anymore. There must be an >>> Akismet bug. This error also happened at trac-hacks. But after I registered >>> and >>> logged in it did not show up, anymore. Probably it's related to anonymous >>> user >>> postings. Could you please check p.e.c and trac-hacks? >>> Thanks! >>> >> I was able to comment on #2209 as an anonymous user but also found this >> in the log on p.e.c: >> >> 2006-06-27 13:52:59,948 Trac[api] WARNING: Filter AkismetFilterStrategy >> rejected content u'anonymous' submitted by "anonymous" (172.192.119.58): >> Akismet rejected spam >> 2006-06-27 13:52:59,949 Trac[main] WARNING: 500 Internal Error (Akismet >> rejected spam) >> >> So I guess akismet is overloaded or something and sometimes respondes >> with a "500 Internal Error"-message which we interpret as a positive >> response and rejects the comment. > > No, the error is because the spam filtering plugin raises an exception > when it's rejecting likely spam. Here Akismet is rating the content > "anonymous" as spam, which is occurring because Alec added the username > as content that should be checked for spam since the attachment spam was > using a large username full of spam URLs. Apparently Akismet isn't > working well with this change.
Okay, that sucks. Perhaps it would work better if we send the username as part of "comment_content" instead of in "comment_author" but I guess that is really to abuse the system... / Jonas _______________________________________________ Trac-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.edgewall.com/mailman/listinfo/trac-dev
