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SpamSentry by Anea

This addon stops goldspam messages from showing in your chatframes. To detect spam, SpamSentry uses sophistacted heuristics that have been developed over the course of over two years. Caught spammers can easily be reported using an intuitive one-click report system. SpamSentry features an LDB plugin that provides some simple status info, and gives you quick access to the options and the reporting window.

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20090502: Fixed bug with minimap icon, updated filters
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Installation:
* Unzip the file into your 'Interface/Addons' folder.

Features:
* Detects multi-message spam
* Customisable notification
* LibDataBroker (LDB) support (FuBar users can download Broker2FuBar to show the SpamSentry icon)
* Compatible with Whisp, Chatter and Wim
* Seperate reportlists are maintained for each realm you play on
* And many more

Use:
* Left click the LDB icon to show a list of blocked messages
* Type /sentry or right-click the icon for options

How to help:
* If a spam-message isn't recognised:
1. Report the spammer by right-clicking the name in the chat window and selecting "Report Spam"
2. Control-click the SpamSentry icon
3. Send me a PM with the code sequence
* If you encounter a false positive:
1. Click the message in SpamSentry main-window
2. Send me a PM containing that message

Performance notes:
* All code has been designed to minimize parsing-time, and maximize performance for raiding.
* The addon currently uses about 150kB memory (Patch 3.0 GetAddOnMemoryUsage(), no libraries).
* Toggle the statistics option in the configuration screen to show session statistics in the tooltip.

Known issues:
* Blizzard made an a-typical implementation for who-queries. You may notice slow response on the /who command while using this mod when the chat is crowded.
* Textballoons from says and yells are still shown. Blizzard currently provides no way to block textballoons.

Localisation:
German - Credits to: Scath, Gothico , Gamefaq
French - Credits to: Foxbad, Onissifor, Citanul, Beldarane
Spanish - Credits to Nekromant for his translation
Chinese - Credits to Norova for her translation
Other - Please contact me if you're able / willing to provide localisation for your language.

Special thanks:
To Aery for unlimited testing-support
  Change Log - SpamSentry
20090223: Updated filters
20090221: Updated filters
20090212: Fixed issue with false positives
20090208: Updated filters
20090203: Updated filters
20090124:
- Replaced tooltip code (LibQTip instead of Tablet).
- Fixed issue with non-english clients not monitoring general channels
- Added minimap icon
- Fixed bugs with WIM-compatibility code
20090122 - Fixed a few minor bugs with patch 3.0.8
Version 20090119
- Ace3 rewrite
- Removed FuBar plugin
- Added LDB plugin
- Removed custom character report functions
- Major code clean-up
Notes:
- Please remove the old SpamSentry folder before installing the new version.
- FuBar users need to install the small addon Broker2FuBar to show the SpamSentry icon on their fubar.
  Archived Versions - SpamSentry
File Name
Version
Size
Author
Date
20090223
169kB
Anea
02-23-2009 03:20 PM
20090221
169kB
Anea
02-21-2009 03:26 AM
20090212
169kB
Anea
02-12-2009 01:42 PM
20090107-2
181kB
Anea
01-07-2009 12:12 PM
20081027
180kB
Anea
10-28-2008 03:30 AM
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Old 06-12-2009, 09:45 PM  
Chronalis
A Defias Bandit

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Just a quick question;
I was using an older version of SpamSentry. However, whilever it was enabled, Friends, Guild, and such lists wouldn't dynamically update when sorting was changed. I had to close and reopen, or scroll the box to get it to update. Is this issue fixed in the current version?

I'm not sure if this is related, but when an item or player link is at the bottom of the chat panel (i.e. on the bottom visible line), i'm unable to click it, and must wait for a new line of text to appear before i can click it. It seems somewhat like the above issue.

These are the only issues holding me back from using it (whereas i absolutely love the mod itself).

Many thanks for putting in the time and effort. It's one of those things that does what it does, and it's really appreciated by me, and many other's.

Best regards,
Chronalis, Ghostlands EU.
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Old 05-15-2009, 02:14 PM  
Valana
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Hi Anea, and thanks for the fantastic add-on. I was curious: do you have any plans for filtering other types of spam, instead of just gold seller spam? For instance: casinos, [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker], Chuck Norris spam, and murloc spam? For casinos, I'd like to see them blocked all the time, and for the latter 3, maybe some kind of flood protection would be more appropriate. Ie. allow such chat for a few lines, but if everyone in trade chat starts just starts spamming [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker] for the next 10 minutes, then SpamSentry should block that as well, for a predefined amount of time.

Thank you for your consideration.
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Old 05-14-2009, 04:03 PM  
techsgtchen
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Thank you for authoring and maintaining this addon. I enjoy using this addon a great deal. I think I sympathize with Drai, please allow WoWMatrix to distribute this addon. I feel that I understand some of the conflicts of the past; Yet, I think you might be pleasantly surprised with how their program works now. I feel that the issues from the past might be irrelevant now. I think that you might disregard this comment, and others like it, but I think it is important to give feedback. Thank you again for your time and energy.
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Old 05-02-2009, 02:54 AM  
Anea
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Re: Re: wowmatrix

I have just updated SpamSentry to address various issues that have been reported in the past few weeks.

Drai: It is a fair question, but I do not intend to support wowmatrix or other addon-managers.
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Old 04-25-2009, 05:12 AM  
Lombra
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Re: wowmatrix

WowMatrix is for lazy users who obviously doesn't have any respect for addon authors and Curse nor WoWInterface. You do not have to update your addons every day, most often not every week, sometimes not every month.
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Old 04-19-2009, 11:30 AM  
drai
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wowmatrix

Both Curse and Wowinterface have blocked wowmatrix, so that addons cannot be update with it. This forces all players who use that utility to hand-install addons. If an addon is licensed with a free license like GPL, wowmatrix will be able store the addon on their servers, allowing people to update it automatically. Or you (the author) can simply contact them (wowmatrix dot com) and just give them permission to store it on there servers.

There are a *lot* of people who use wowmatrix. Many guilds require members to run it before starting wow for raids.

*please* consider letting wowmatrix work with your addon. There will be no change to code.

thanks
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Old 04-01-2009, 08:29 AM  
Spahut
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Question:

When I manually right click on a spammer and report them, it is added to a list instead of being reported at once - is there a way to avoid it being added to the list but forced to be reported NOW ?
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Old 03-22-2009, 02:10 PM  
Spahut
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Here is a request:

When you are told to click on a link to bring up the report window, I'd like a feature to see the "clear" button disabled.

So many times I end up clicking on that instead of reporting the spammers and then its too late..
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Old 03-19-2009, 07:21 AM  
Anea
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LDB icon

I have been slacking a bit the past two weeks due to busy work. I'll look into the LDB-icon issue this weekend. Should not be too hard to fix once SpamSentry is using the up-to-date version of the lib again.

Thank you all for the detailed feedback!
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Old 03-16-2009, 06:07 PM  
azonia
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For now, the quick and dirty way is to do a search in your addons directory for the file "LibDBIcon-1.0.lua"

Replace all versions of this file with the one included with SpamSentry.

I'm sure there's a better fix, but this works for me.
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Old 03-15-2009, 10:03 PM  
khariv
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So is there a straightforward resolution to turning OFF the minimap icon and getting it to stay off?
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Old 03-15-2009, 04:46 PM  
azonia
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Further testing with the icon duplication problem shows that any addon using the updated ldbicon library will cause spamsentry to have 2 icons. Looks like there was a change in version 7 or 8 that broke spam sentry's ldb code. I tried changing the version in spam sentry's libraries, but that didn't help, so for now I'm downgrading ldbicon library in all of my other addons to version 6.
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Old 03-13-2009, 07:34 PM  
azonia
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I've installed the newest bigwigs bossmods and for some reason it causes SpamSentry to duplicate its icon. This is with broker2fubar installed, so I get an icon on the fubar and on the minimap. Not sure which mod is the culprit here.

*note: I rolled back the ldbicon library included with bigwigs (rev: 8) to the one that spamsentry uses (rev: 6) and that made the problem go away.

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Old 02-23-2009, 08:33 PM  
SkunkWerks
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Quote:
Originally posted by Visceroid
I have 143 folders (embeded libraries) in my addon directory (without the blizzard ones) and usually have 0 errors when playing :P Might be addon conflicts that are causing them but usually you don't have that many errors when everything is working right.
Good for you. But as I said, I find that with as much as addons are coded, recoded, and often conflict with one another, I see that assertion as highly impractical and unrealistic.

Add in that I use a number of fairly unique addons that have fallen into disuse and disrepair but are at present irreplaceable, and there you have it.

In any case, few of these errors make any part of my interface unusable, so I don't generally care much about them.

And on the odd occasion where one of them does matter, I want an error catcher there recording it, but not shoving it in my face along with the 5-10 other inconsequential errors I receive regularly.
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Old 02-23-2009, 05:49 PM  
Visceroid
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Quote:
Originally posted by SkunkWerks
And my retort was something along the line of "you try having 200+ addons installed and see if you don't get at least five errors a session."
I have 143 folders (embeded libraries) in my addon directory (without the blizzard ones) and usually have 0 errors when playing :P Might be addon conflicts that are causing them but usually you don't have that many errors when everything is working right.
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