[SAC] [OSGeo] #1659: https://geos.osgeo.org shows GRASS homepage

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
> On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 10:33:51PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
>> At time trac is rather unresponsive!
>
> Today we are having another kind of attack (frequent requests for
> big files).  I added fail2ban rules to reduce that problem.
>
>> So, posted here since I cann edit the ticket:
>>
>> I tried to change the embedded images on that GEOS page to https for
>> full SSL certificate support but got "wiped out":
>>
>> "Submission rejected as potential spam
>>     BlogSpam says content is spam (Too many links, found 14 max is 10
>> [50-lotsaurls.js])
>>     Maximum number of external links per post exceeded"
>
> Interesting, and how many links did you change ?

maybe 3...

> With current configuration you got 1 karma point for being
> authenticated, -5 for the too-many-links BlogSpam (14/10)
> and -7 for maximum number of external links per post,
> totalling -11.

w00t :)

> The default karma point for authenticated was 20, but no spam
> was ever cought. How did you change the GRASS one ?

During the last 24hs I was managing the spam stuff on the respective
"monitoring" page, also approving a few "hams".

>> GEOS trac admins, please...
>
> We'll have to find a balance. Rember that last week authenticated
> users were simply not given the possibility to edit pages.

I just tried to help. Not having the admin rights in the geos trac I
could not turn my edit to ham.
So I have to pass the ball along.

> The monitor shows me you were blocked twice, with the score -11
> but does not give me a way to look at the changes (could have been
> interesting).

I have no clue because my session got eaten.

> I don't know if reporting your changes as "ham" would be a good
> training or a bad one as I don't know if the bayes filter would
> be fed with the whole content or just the diff. Surely WikiStart
> isn't a good example of a normal page, with all those links... :(

No idea...

Markus