[FFmpeg-devel] trac antispam meassures

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:36:53AM -0800, Lou Logan wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2016, at 10:13 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >
> > So ive added a very basic pre registration page that asks 2 trivial
> > questions.
> 
> This should help reduce the load on trac itself regarding the unending
> stream of bots attempting to register. This will make training the bayes
> easier because there will be less noise to sift through.
> 

> As far as I can tell the spam that actually gets through is not usually
> from bots but from live criminal miscreants:

yes, the question though is do they know the project name
it certainly doesnt pay for them to do this just with one or even
a hundread websites. If it wasnt in our URL i would say they would
be out of the game too. As it is in the URL iam curious if these
2 questions will decrease human spam or not
also the live criminals might have automated some of their trac attack
procedure, that extra page might throw some off balance



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Breaking DRM is a little like attempting to break through a door even
though the window is wide open and the only thing in the house is a bunch
of things you dont want and which you would get tomorrow for free anyway
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