[Tracker-discuss] [issue105] Dealing with spam

[Izak Burger]

Izak Burger added the comment:

Richard Jones wrote:
> On the email side the best thing to do would be to disallow email  
> access for anonymous users.

This is already the case, quite a bit of spam bounces to the postmaster 
address because the sender is not a registered user.  This is instead a 
case where someone specifically creates an account, ie similar to wiki 
spam.  We've found that spammers adapt whenever you put in simple 
measures (like form trickery).  Not sure how to get arround that one, I 
particularly like the two step idea of 1) Find spammers, and 2) break 
fingers.  Not very executable though :-)

Cheers,
Izak

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