[josm-dev] Spam in Trac

[Lubomir Varga]

Hi.

Just nonproffesional suggestion. What to about add some vote to tickets or some  link to report spam? It wont do machine filter, but google also use human spam filter. Human is now imho only 100% option to filter spam.


-----Original Message-----
From: Dirk Stöcker <openstreetmap at dstoecker.de>
Sent: 23. augusta 2009 22:11
To: josm-dev at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [josm-dev] Spam in Trac

On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Sebastian Waschik wrote:

>> I think we see the first beginnings of a new SPAM area.
>
> Some wikis use a capcha if you add many links.  But this spam even use
> only one url: This is rare today (but not tomorrow).

I know. But currently (after a lot of training and finetuning as well as 
bugfixing in the spam filter) our misdetection rate is very low and I did 
not want to introduce one more step making the Trac more complicated.

And also I fear the time of captchas will be over very soon as well. There 
are already a lot of captchas which are better machine than human 
readable.

Currently I have the same problem with my mail spam filter, where I get 
more and more properly and well formed SPAM mails which slip through the 
filters. Anti-SPAM mechanisms worked more reliable last time and SPAMMERS 
increase their efforts. This will be a never ending fight I fear.

Ciao
-- 
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