[Tracker-discuss] [issue105] Dealing with spam

[Skip Montanaro]

Skip Montanaro added the comment:

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

Right.  Most/all of these spammers are trying to get their links on blogs.
We are just independent bystanders caught in the crossfire.  If honeypot
fields were added it would be a good idea to name them the same as the
common comment textarea fields on popular blog hosting sites.

Skip

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