Trac: Add whitelist to avoid spam filter.

[eric@adblockplus.org]

I just spent the better part of an hour writing up a long comment on https://issues.adblockplus.org/ticket/681 which was rejected as spam (with 99.84% probability, no less). Presumably this was solely from length, unless the word "Microsoft" is listed in the Trac database as a profanity.

I was unable to recover the draft text in any way. It was totally gone out of the browser history etc.

I can certainly see a need for a spam filter for the general public, but it seems a white list for known and trusted people is also warranted. A workaround would be to have the rejection page at least repeat the rejected text so that it could be recovered.

[eric@adblockplus.org]

@philll fixed my immediate problem, but with manual intervention. Also, thanks. It would be better not to need to need such intervention at all.

[philll]

We try #699 first.

[matze]

Did it work?

[philll]

It did improve the overall situation a lot. However, we still face some false positives every week, subjectively rated as many as actual matches. As the effort for unblocking comments is not higher than obfuscate spam post that ended up in the issue tracker, I would still stay with spambayes just for a cases of bigger spam attacks. The whitelisting per user feature would still be nice to have, not sure, whether it is worth the maintenance over time.