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Block contact form spam #371

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waldoj opened this issue Jan 5, 2020 · 3 comments
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Block contact form spam #371

waldoj opened this issue Jan 5, 2020 · 3 comments
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waldoj commented Jan 5, 2020

Spam on the contact form has gotten really annoying — 3–5 items a day. And since they all originate from my own authenticated domain, Gmail spam filtering (reasonably) lets them all through.

Add spam filtering. Probably Akismet.
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waldoj commented Jan 5, 2020 •
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Yup, Akismet is the way to go.

  • set up an Akismet account
  • store the API key in Travis CI
  • add a new constant in settings.inc.php
  • populate the constant within the deploy process
  • select a PHP Akismet library
  • add PHP Akismet library to deploy process
  • modify feedback-sending functionality to filter via Akismet

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waldoj commented Jan 5, 2020

This seems like a reasonable, maintained library to use.

waldoj added a commit that referenced this issue Jan 6, 2020
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Start to add support for Akismet API key
2af5164 
Toward #371.
waldoj added a commit that referenced this issue Jan 6, 2020
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Add Akismet library to build
f0bb835 
Toward #371.
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waldoj commented Jan 6, 2020

D'oh — it is reasonable and maintained, but it requires PHP v7.2, and the code base isn't ready to make that leap yet (see #240).

waldoj added a commit that referenced this issue Jan 11, 2020
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Start to add spam filtering to feedback form
6647a22 
Toward #371
waldoj added a commit that referenced this issue May 28, 2020
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Block extra-US contact form submissions
83b553d 
Toward #371.
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