Ask Fedora and SPAM again

[Petyo Vodenicharov]

Hello,
I'm not sure, just a suggestions, the authentication facilities should have
some logs, maybe it's worth the effort to check how the spammer is
authenticating. If there are no such logs maybe we should look to implement
some.
On Sat Nov 08 2014 at 6:07:27 PM Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 17:09 +0200, NikTh wrote:
> > I have that strong feeling that if we remove Facebook and Yahoo from
> > login/sign-up options, the things will be much better.
> >
> > Can we do that, even as a test/trial and see how it goes?
>
> How exactly would you test this? You don't know when the spammer is
> going to post. If you're advising that we just switch them off and wait
> for a month, I'm not sure if it's a very good idea - I'd expect quite a
> few users using these authentication methods. The issue is that we
> haven't info on our userbase - who is using what, how many are using
> what. If we can narrow down the methods that the spammer is using, we
> can work on something to limit them.
> --
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
>
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