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
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