[Systems] Spam accounts on trac

[Sascha Silbe]

Excerpts from Bernie Innocenti's message of Sun Sep 05 10:12:51 +0200 2010:

> there are dozens of accounts in Trac with a @mail.ru email domain which
> are certainly spammers. How about purging them all with an SQL query?
The gmail.com ones look even more suspicious. :-P

> In general, all the accounts where username == full name are highly
> suspicious. We could even be aggressive and remove them all. In case of
> collateral damage, the human victims will simply re-create their
> accounts.
Since everything useful in Trac requires going through moderation
(once), purging anything older than, say, a month that isn't in group
unmoderated shouldn't hurt anyone. If we mention that fact on the
Register page we could even do it via cron.monthly.

Sascha

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