[Tracker-discuss] [issue105] Dealing with spam

[Richard Jones]

Richard Jones added the comment:

On 21/03/2007, at 6:18 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> I like the proposal of rejecting submissions that arrive within 4s  
> of form
> generation.
>
> Another idea is to mangle the field names so that the spambot  
> doesn't know what
> fields to enter the email address in (and add some honeypot fields  
> for the email
> address so we know a bot has filled them).
>
> Richard, is there anything like that already done in roundup?

Nothing on the form side that I'm aware of - generally trackers just  
require a login if spam is ever an issue.

On the email side the best thing to do would be to disallow email  
access for anonymous users. If anonymous email submission is allowed  
then human triage is the general method of filtering as automatic  
systems are error-prone and difficult to maintain (I'm actually  
unaware of anyone using the latter).

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