Forum: Ruby-core How to stop spam message from redmine.ruby-lang.org

HI,

I noticed that redmine.ruby-lang.org(bugs.ruby-lang.org) is suffering
for spam messages through news comment.

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/news/2
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/news/3

Please take an appropriate measure against it.

Regards,

Park Heesob

Hi,

(2012/11/29 18:45), Heesob Park wrote:
> I noticed that redmine.ruby-lang.org(bugs.ruby-lang.org) is suffering
> for spam messages through news comment.
>
> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/news/2
> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/news/3
>
> Please take an appropriate measure against it.

Thanks for reporting.
I limit non members to comment news and edit wiki,
and locked users who commented those news and removed comments.

Thanks,

Thank you nurse, can you close this ticket as well?
http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6537

Hello Yui,

On 2012/11/29 19:49, NARUSE, Yui wrote:

> Thanks for reporting.
> I limit non members to comment news and edit wiki,
> and locked users who commented those news and removed comments.

Many thanks. However, I think that to reduce spam from redmine on the
ruby-... mailing lists, it would really be a good idea to do something
like captcha.

Regards,   Martin.

(2012/12/03 16:40), "Martin J. Dürst" wrote:
> Hello Yui,
>
> On 2012/11/29 19:49, NARUSE, Yui wrote:
>
>> Thanks for reporting.
>> I limit non members to comment news and edit wiki,
>> and locked users who commented those news and removed comments.
>
> Many thanks. However, I think that to reduce spam from redmine on the ruby-... 
mailing lists, it would really be a good idea to do something like captcha.

They pass mail authentication and write spam.
So I think they spam by hand and captcha is useless.

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 4:49 AM, NARUSE, Yui <naruse@airemix.jp> wrote:

> They pass mail authentication and write spam.
> So I think they spam by hand and captcha is useless.


Agreed.

Shouldn't we delete the messages from the mailing list archives? I'm not
very knowledgeable on spam, but currently this gives them some SEO
opportunities, no?

First time posters could be subject to a 24h delay before they can post
again.

On 2012/12/04 2:40, Marc-Andre Lafortune wrote:

> Shouldn't we delete the messages from the mailing list archives? I'm not
> very knowledgeable on spam, but currently this gives them some SEO
> opportunities, no?

My understanding is that they are indeed deleted. But I may be wrong.
Yui, if you need more hands to help you delete spam, please say so.

(the problem is that even if their postings are deleted from Redmine,
they will stay in mailing list archives.

> First time posters could be subject to a 24h delay before they can post
> again.

That would be the most efficient measure against the redmine spam. Is
such a measure possible?

Regards,   Martin.