Developers of Sympa

[Alexandre Franke <address@concealed>]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 4:12 PM Quentin Gliech
<address@concealed> wrote:
> Banning spammers wont do anything because they usually don't reuse their
> nicks and they change hostnames regularly.

Indeed. FWIW on GIMPNet the network operators have banned a whole
range of IP and that was quite effective, but it had the side effect
that a few real people got banned as well as they were running their
bouncer off the same Google compute thing as the spammers come from.

> Instead, I'd suggest to prevent unregistered users to talk (+q $~a),
> which turned to be quite effective in other channels I'm in.

That can alienate a non trivial amount of people too. It would work
but have a side effect similar to the range ban described above.

> See https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201808/fighting_spam_on_freenode.html

The solution described as day 3 in Julien’s comment seems to be a good
compromise. Let’s implement that one.

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Alexandre Franke
GNOME Hacker