Re: [Chicken-users] Anonymous trac access

[Arto Bendiken]

On 1/16/07, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is such a great idea.  The Rails trac site originally
> also had anonymous access for creating and editing tickets, and they
> had a huge spam problem.  They finally closed it down for anonymous.
>
> As an alternative, we might try using the CaptchaPlugin or the
> SpamFilterPlugin from trac-hacks.org
> http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/CaptchaPlugin
> http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/SpamFilterPlugin

Yes, spam *is* going to be a problem, there's no doubt about it. I
have ticket #33 [1] assigned to remind me to install SpamFilterPlugin
in the imminent future :-)

However, I think bug reporting by non-SVN users is really a necessity
in order for us to reap the benefits of using an organized system like
Trac. Either we'll rely on a spam filter preventing preventing the
worst abuses, or we'll have to look into using something like
http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/AccountManagerPlugin - the latter, however,
is a rather complex system, in comparison to the spam filter even.

So, let's keep close tabs on the situation, and input is appreciated at #33.

[1] http://trac.callcc.org/ticket/33

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