On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Aymeric Augustin <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> For some reason, ticket #542 has been collecting spam comments that
> bypassed Trac's antispam. Since receiving spam on django-updates and
> deleting it manually gets tedious after 100 messages, I hacked Trac to
> prevent further comments on this ticket.
>
> I'm positive that Trac's antispam works in general: the monitoring views
> shows that it fends off over 200 spams every day. However, these comments
> weren't blocked and they don't appear in the monitoring view. I can't
> explain that. Please contact me privately if you can help!
>
>
Thanks for that Aymeric -- I was getting similarly stabby about the
comments on that ticket. I also noticed that the comments were bypassing
the Akismet spam checks. I have no idea how that is even possible - my
concern is that there might be an exploit that we don't know about.

Russ %-)

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