Woah! I should have checked: I think they were all coming from the same ip address. I've blocked that IP address and lets see what happens.
Thanks. Robby On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Laurent <laurent.ors...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't how much of this is done right now, or is feasible, but just in > case here are some suggestions: > - Don't allow more than 5-10 bug reports in one hour from the same IP, > with possible ban (+ visual warning) > - Use something like SpamAssassin, tuned toward bug-reporting > - Restrict bug reporting to registered users only (but this is probably a > bad policy) > - Make the user pay $1 for each bug report (+ optionally introduce random > bugs in Racket), and pay me back 50% for the idea. > > Laurent > > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Robby Findler < > ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: > >> Hi all: I'm sorry to say that I've just disabled planet's bug reporting >> system. Over the last 24 hours, we've gotten about 2,000 spam bug reports. >> (They are all gone now.) >> >> I'm also sorry to report that I deleted bug number 509 by accident (it >> was not spam). >> >> The bug report system was using recaptcha (still is there, actually if >> you want to see: http://planet.racket-lang.org/trac/newticket) but >> apparently that's now been broken. >> >> I'm not sure what's the right approach to take in fixing this, so if >> people have suggestions I'm all ears and motivated in a way that I wasn't >> last time this came up on the list. >> >> Robby >> >> >> ____________________ >> Racket Users list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >> >> >
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