[SAC] another ongoing spam storm

Sandro Santilli strk at keybit.net
Wed May 4 01:44:11 PDT 2016


On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 10:24:39AM +0200, Even Rouault wrote:
> Le mercredi 04 mai 2016 10:20:49, Sandro Santilli a écrit :
> > On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 10:04:06AM +0200, Even Rouault wrote:
> > > Le mardi 03 mai 2016 23:02:45, Martin Spott a écrit :
> > > > On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 08:04:24PM +0200, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> > > > > And:
> > > > These have been removed from OSGeo LDAP.
> > > > I'll try to come up with a more convenient command line solution this
> > > > weekend, until then I'll be at your service as time permits.
> > > 
> > > GDAL wiki just got spammed by "shadabmallick" 4 times in 5 minutes.
> > > Sigh... From my memories, it seems the spam contains the names "notron",
> > > "adnap", "eefacm", "gva" (I wrote them in reverse order to avoid undue
> > > advertizing) + "antivirus". Wondering if there's a way to have a
> > > blacklist of words disallowed in wiki pages ? We don't care about
> > > antivirus, do we ?
> > 
> > I'm using SQL words matching to find spammers for blocking and
> > cleaning. Maybe I could try using table constraints to completely
> > forbid creating such pages. Not sure how trac code would react
> > to such constraint determined failures. If you want to test
> > ping me in #telascience and we can play with that idea.
> 
> Instead of custom solutions, what about installing 
> https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/SpamFilter ? I think this has been mentionned 
> recently. This would seem to be the appropriate solution. Or at least 
> something to try.

Could you please see if a ticket for this already exist and, if not,
file one ?

--strk;


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