Bug report

[Dirk Hohndel]

> On Oct 7, 2015, at 5:02 PM, K. Heller <pestophagous at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 4:32 AM, Guido Lerch <guido.lerch at gmail.com <mailto:guido.lerch at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> 2015-10-07 13:27 GMT+02:00 Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org>:
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 01:23:12PM +0200, Guido Lerch wrote:
>>>> All,
>>>> Tried to get a Track account but got rejected :-(
>>> 
>>> Interesting. Can you tell me more what you tried and what happened? We
>>> have people create trac accounts several times a week and it turns to work
>>> quite well - we do a minimal captcha to get rid of some of the spam bots,
>>> but it should reject you :-)
>> 
>> 
>> gave user id, password (twice), mail, filled the captcha box, my name, no details.
>> got a reject message -  I am NO spam :-)
>>> 
> 
> I initially got rejected, too.  For posterity: the time that I was
> trying to register for trac was around:  Mon, 5 Oct 2015 21:00 -0700
> (PDT)
> 
> One minor difference was that i originally filled in the "details"
> field (although TBH i wasn't sure what i was supposed to type there).
> After I got rejected I tried again without using the details field,
> and it worked.  I (apparently inaccurately) chalked it up to problems
> with the details field.

No - that is an intentional spam bot detractor.
No normal human would fill in a field "details" - what the heck is that?
But spam bots always try to fill in all fields.
So all attempts to register with that field filled get rejected :-)

> Since Guido opted for "no details", though, that makes me think that
> simply retrying was what helped me—not my decision to clear out my
> details.

I don't understand why Guido was rejected, frankly.

/D
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