Greetings. Over the last few months there has been a large increase in spam submitted to some Fedora Infrastructure services, mostly focused on fedorahosted trac (wiki and tickets) and the Fedora project wiki. (They have also begun targeting bugzilla.redhat.com, please report any spams there to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla&version=4.4) To combat this flood of spam we have created an automated spam detection and cleanup service called Basset (https://pagure.io/basset) Basset hooks into our infrastructure in a number of places: * Into the Fedora Account System (FAS). Basset may decide based on a number of factors that a new account does not appear legitimate and mark it 'spamcheck_denied' or 'spamcheck_manual' (it's not sure). New account holders that find themselves with this status should get an email asking them to mail accounts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to reset and retrain Basset. * Into trac ticket and wiki submissions. When spam tickets or wiki edits are noted, the user is moved to 'spamcheck_denied' status, their edits or tickets are deleted. If you see a spam ticket or wiki edit that is older than an hour or so please let us know and we can train Basset on it. Otherwise, please leave such tickets and edits alone, or Basset may mark your account as well for editing the spam. * Into other services soon as well that spammers may target. Please do let us know at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or via a infrastructure trac ticket ( https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ ) if you find any spam not deleted/cleaned up, or users mis-marked. Do allow Basset a few minutes processing time however. kevin
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