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Date:      Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:18:10 -0800
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, developers@FreeBSD.org, www@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: send-pr again
Message-ID:  <20021107221810.GE35297@vectors.cx>
In-Reply-To: <3915.1036701991@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20021107204243.GA22068@rot13.obsecurity.org> <3915.1036701991@critter.freebsd.dk>

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>> (11.07.2002 @ 1246 PST): Poul-Henning Kamp said, in 0.9K: <<
> 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 ?
>> end of "Re: send-pr again" from Poul-Henning Kamp <<

4) Don't accept PRs that are the same as another open PR.

/Adam


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Adam Weinberger
adam@vectors.cx
adamw@FreeBSD.ORG

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