On 1 April 2011 17:07, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Minh Nguyen <nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:20 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> See (or don't) #11102 and #11103.  Now they're creating new tickets,
>>> not just comments.  Hopefully someone can get rid of them.
>>
>> They're closed as invalid and the corresponding accounts deleted.
>>
>>
>>>  But it
>>> would be bad to go back to the "email William for an account" days...
>>
>> We need a better recaptcha plugin. The current one seems to be broken
>> somehow. I have been dealing with spam accounts on a daily basis for
>> months now, but it was only recently that I found myself dealing with
>> more spam tickets than usual.
>
> It sounds like it might be less work for you if we switch to "email
> Minh for an account"?

Or how about setting up something which copies the mail to those with
admin rights on trac, so it does not rely on any one individual?

> Anyway, no matter how good the recaptcha plugin is, a human spammer
> can still trivially get an account.
>
>  -- William

Yes, though it does put a bit of a barrier in the way.

Dave

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