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There’s a Chinese spammer out there Googling for Trac projects he can submit junk bugs to. The bugs contain page after page of advertising text for a website selling commercial-grade LED displays. The following is from my access_log, showing that this guy manually searches around for Trac ticket submission forms, then fires away.

61.48.126.237 - - [10/May/2006:10:00:24 -0500] "GET /project/report/6 HTTP/1.1" 200 107783 "http://www.google.cn/search?q=NEW+TICKET+Trac&hl=zh-CN&lr=&newwindow=1&start=990&sa=N&filter=0" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
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61.48.126.237 - - [10/May/2006:10:00:44 -0500] "GET /project/newticket HTTP/1.1" 200 15998 "http://trac.feedtree.net/project/report/6" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
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61.48.126.237 - - [10/May/2006:10:04:12 -0500] "POST /project HTTP/1.1" 302 14 "http://trac.feedtree.net/project/newticket" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"

The spam text, which is entered in every possible field in the bug form, is Chinese (“LED显示???”, and on and on); it translates to the usual list of key phrases: “color led display, double base color led display, outdoor led display, indoor led display, …” I’ve gotten 4 or 5 of these junk tickets now. Congratulations, 61.48.126.237, you’re the proud recipient of a new deny from rule!