Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 21:46:31 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: developers@FreeBSD.org, www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: send-pr again Message-ID: <3915.1036701991@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Nov 2002 12:43:07 PST." <20021107204243.GA22068@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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In message <20021107204243.GA22068@rot13.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway writes: >On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:29:27PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> I disabled send-pr.html again because of another troll. This is >> getting monotonous. > >Two possible strategies to mitigate this: > >1) Rate-limit PRs submitted via the web from the same IP address (say >one per 5 minutes). This will force a spammer to keep shifting >proxies. > >2) Probe for an open proxy on the submitting host before accepting the >PR (similar to what modern ircd servers do). 3) Stop putting submitted PR's directly into the database, instead forward them to a mailbox which the bugbusters sort through ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-www" in the body of the message
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