[Box Backup-dev] Trac spam

[James O'Gorman]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:40:51PM +0100, Martin Ebourne wrote:
> Since you're the one currently having to fix it I guess it's down to
> whether you feel the current erasing graffiti approach is too high an
> overhead or ok at the moment.

There hasn't been too much, so it's manageable, but it does rely on
either a) me regularly checking or b) someone prodding me (either
privately or on-list).

I've been pretty busy recently so a) is less likely but it's only a
quick thing to delete a row from the database so I don't mind people
dropping me a note.

> If it's wasting too much time then the options appear to be add the
> plugin that lets other people delete the spam so we can spread the load,
> or add a big notice saying email the admins/group asking for an account.

It would probably be better if, in the long run other admins (i.e. you
and Ben) and possibly people marked as "developers" within Trac (i.e.
Chris, Per) had the ability to remove the spam too.

I'll leave this one up to the "real" users (I'm happy to do either) -
would people prefer to have an extra plugin to remove the spam or
disable user self-registration?

James