[Box Backup-dev] Trac spam

[James O'Gorman]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:19:41PM +0100, Martin Ebourne wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 20:12 +0100, James O'Gorman wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:10:16PM +0100, Ben Summers wrote:
> > > 
> > > So, it's happened.
> > > 
> > > http://bbdev.fluffy.co.uk/trac/ticket/2
> > > 
> > > How do we delete the crap?
> > 
> > I've deleted it directly from the database.
> > 
> > I've also been deleting the accounts that spambots are registering for
> > themselves - I suppose this brings up the question of whether I should
> > disable user self-registration? (i.e an admin would have to create users
> > upon request)
> 
> Is it possible to have admin confirmation on new user accounts? Or maybe
> one of those captcha things, but I generally hate those.

I checked, and the TracAccountManager plugin doesn't have this function
yet but there do seem to be tickets open against it requesting such
features.

Anyone have any thoughts as to what we should do in the mean time?

James