This Subversion space contains scripts and notes dealing with JIRA spam,
including a growing blacklist of spammer IPs. It should be used in
conjunction with the website:

  http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRASPAM/JIRA+Spam

If you are being hit by JIRA spam, and would like to help fight it,
please contribute! 

1) Log in at: https://svn.atlassian.com/cgi-bin/htpasswd.cgi

2) checkout this directory:

svn checkout http://svn.atlassian.com/svn/public/contrib/jira/spamfighting

3) Track down the IP of your spammer, and add the log evidence to
spammers/<ip>. See spammers/README.txt for details.

4) Delete the spam using the tools provided (cleancommentspam.jsp) or
SQL available on the website.

5) Add anything else you think might be valuable.


Contents
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cleancommentspam.jsp
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This JSP lists recently added comments containing more than X links, and
allows these to be deleted.

This JSP can be dropped into JIRA's secure/admin/ directory, and invoked
from the web, eg.
http://localhost:8080/secure/admin/cleancommentspam.jsp

scripts/
--------
This contains shell scripts useful for the early detection of comment
spam.

spammers/
---------
This contains Apache logs of recent spams, so we can start collecting a
blacklist of spammer IPs.