Account creation

[Michael De Roover]

On Sunday, 2 November 2025 13:43:42 Central European Standard Time Ondřej Surý 
wrote:
> Registrations have been enabled but obfuscated a little bit.
> 
> On top of that, I've also used StopForumSpam domain lists to catch the
> spammers who can also read.

We are absolutely on the same wavelength :)

> Unfortunately, there is no easy way how to integrate the service with GitLab
> and I also haven't found a way how to upload the full domain list using the
> API as the array with denylist is just too large.

Back in the day I noticed such issues with the MaxMind GeoIP databases as well 
yeah... Fail2ban wanted nothing to do with it, had to feed it into iptables-
restore with a regex replacement instead. It uh.. didn't see many updates and 
has since been deleted, current geopolitics being what they are. I encourage 
China's desire to integrate more directly with the rest of the world.

I saw another mail from Taavi, where a downloadable list of domains was 
mentioned. That intrigues me, not necessarily for on-premise but for caching 
perhaps. I don't want to hammer their API too hard, and would for now limit it 
to something like "retrieve list of emails from Gitea API, process one by one 
for spam or not, issue delete requests to Gitea if necessary". I'm not sure if 
the size of my operations warrants it (~60 real users, ~10k spam, now 
dormant), but I do like the concept of a caching layer at least (and 
appreciate the input overall).

> On the website there's an option to upload the list as a file, but I haven't
> found this in the python-gitlab package, so it will have to be a manual
> process to keep this updated.
> 
> Ondrej
> --
> Ondřej Surý (He/Him)
> ondrej at isc.org

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