[josm-dev] SPAM

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Frederik Ramm wrote:

>>> Turned out it wasn't SO bad after all. Spam filtering now enabled, may
>>> need some fine tuning. Feedback welcome and sorry for not acting earlier
>>> on this, I wasn't really aware of the scale of the problem.
>>
>> No, seems not to work. I added ticket 1307 without any problem.
>
> Spam log says:
>
> "Existing session found" - it let you through because you had done
> something else before, something that spammers usually don't do.
> (It did catch a few attempted spam entries later in the day.)

Hah. Does not catch asian spam :-)
1308 to 1311

Probably because no link is involved.

> I have combed through old tickets and kicked out a few more spam
> ones. I wonder whether we should perhaps just remove everything that
> is older than one year, closed or not, on the grounds that it is
> most likely not relevant any more - thus making the whole thing
> a bit more responsive.

Usually thats not a good idea. Sometimes bugs are regressions.

And some of the old still open suggestions are still valid. I already 
closed a large bunch of the stuff "no longer relevant".

E.G. I would like to have the "virtual vertices" option: A virtual node in 
the middle of two street nodes, which becomes a real node as soon as it is 
dragged around. Would make new nodes in a way much easier. Bug 595.

Ciao
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