#12947: Trac won't accept new registrations (classifies as spam)
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Reporter: humdinger | Owner: haiku-web
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone:
Component: Website/Trac | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by pulkomandy):
SpamBayes will analyze the *content* of the submission, not the HTTP
headers. In the case of the registration page, the content is empty.
SpamBayes rely on careful training and a reasonable ration of "spam" vs
"ham" submissions. Our instance was trained with way too much spam and not
enough ham, so now it rejects a lot more things than it should, including
most empty messages. I have no idea why it sometimes works.
We can reset the spambayes filter and re-train it, which would solve at
least part of the problem. Or, we could disable it since we have several
other filters running anyway (using shared services such as Akismet), and
various blacklists.
But, the most important part is, we should fix the captcha. However, this
is not something I can do from the Trac admin page, so we need someone
from haiku-web to have a look at it. Maybe the trac spam filter plugin
could be updated.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/12947#comment:2>
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