 Spammers At The Forum?, new members:- posting spam? |
  Nov 12 2007, 10:04 AM
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 Group: Members Posts: 449 Joined: 12-August 03 From: Leeds, UK Member No.: 346  |
 I have noticed at least two posts by very new members that appear to be links to some sort of commercial sites. One was in the threads about bargains, one was in the thread about kopi/kapi. The one in the bargain thread was about mobile phones  and the one in the kopi/kapi thread asked people to send private messages.  ISO, dz and Speculatrix would you have a look and see if I'm just being paranoid?  It would be a shame if we had to go back to 'vetting' new members but it might be needed if this is really the start of spamming the forum.  Cheers
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Nov 12 2007, 11:59 AM
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A day or two ago, I reported two identical posts advertisng new mobile phones I think.
They were both authored by the same member, who had joined the same day and had a total of 2 posts. I think one was in the For Sale/Wanted thread, and the other was in one of the SL-5500 threads. Regards, Doug |
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Nov 12 2007, 03:02 PM
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QUOTE(dougeeebear @ Nov 12 2007, 02:59 PM)  A day or two ago, I reported two identical posts advertisng new mobile phones I think. They were both authored by the same member, who had joined the same day and had a total of 2 posts. I think one was in the For Sale/Wanted thread, and the other was in one of the SL-5500 threads. Regards, Doug Yea... I deleted them 2 Late |
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 Nov 13 2007, 02:09 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 449 Joined: 12-August 03 From: Leeds, UK Member No.: 346 |
QUOTE(InSearchOf @ Nov 12 2007, 11:02 PM) QUOTE(dougeeebear @ Nov 12 2007, 02:59 PM) A day or two ago, I reported two identical posts advertisng new mobile phones I think. They were both authored by the same member, who had joined the same day and had a total of 2 posts. I think one was in the For Sale/Wanted thread, and the other was in one of the SL-5500 threads. Regards, Doug Yea... I deleted them 2 Late You Devil you! You also deleted the post before one of the spams!! It was one of mine!  Cheers |
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Nov 13 2007, 06:10 AM
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Group: Admin Posts: 1,209 Joined: 20-January 06 From: York, Pennsylvania Member No.: 8,961 |
QUOTE(tux @ Nov 13 2007, 05:09 AM) QUOTE(InSearchOf @ Nov 12 2007, 11:02 PM) QUOTE(dougeeebear @ Nov 12 2007, 02:59 PM) A day or two ago, I reported two identical posts advertisng new mobile phones I think. They were both authored by the same member, who had joined the same day and had a total of 2 posts. I think one was in the For Sale/Wanted thread, and the other was in one of the SL-5500 threads. Regards, Doug Yea... I deleted them 2 Late You Devil you! You also deleted the post before one of the spams!! It was one of mine! Cheers Huh? I deleted your post? |
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Nov 13 2007, 09:43 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 449 Joined: 12-August 03 From: Leeds, UK Member No.: 346 |
QUOTE(InSearchOf @ Nov 13 2007, 02:10 PM) QUOTE(tux @ Nov 13 2007, 05:09 AM) QUOTE(InSearchOf @ Nov 12 2007, 11:02 PM) QUOTE(dougeeebear @ Nov 12 2007, 02:59 PM) A day or two ago, I reported two identical posts advertisng new mobile phones I think. They were both authored by the same member, who had joined the same day and had a total of 2 posts. I think one was in the For Sale/Wanted thread, and the other was in one of the SL-5500 threads. Regards, Doug Yea... I deleted them 2 Late You Devil you! You also deleted the post before one of the spams!! It was one of mine! Cheers Huh? I deleted your post? Well if you did the deleting in the pinned thread about kdepimpi in the software thread then my post has gone also!  I replied to uth's post about being able to run the kdepimpi stuff on modern desktop distros and referred to alijames's comment about the compiling issue. The next post after mine was one of these cheesy spammers quoting my post and pretending to be answering it! Not to fuss: my deathless prose is worth sacrificing to kill a spammer...  Especially with my breathless lack of commas!
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tux Spammers At The Forum? Nov 12 2007, 10:04 AM
dz I got spam reports from those, but by the time I c... Nov 12 2007, 11:11 AM
InSearchOf QUOTE(tux @ Nov 13 2007, 12:43 PM) QUOTE(... Nov 13 2007, 02:59 PM speculatrix I've deleted a few posts too, sometimes I find... Nov 15 2007, 02:38 PM tux I don't suppose I'm the first to notice: a... Nov 19 2007, 09:13 AM speculatrix QUOTE(tux @ Nov 19 2007, 05:13 PM) I don... Nov 19 2007, 09:19 AM dougeeebear QUOTE(tux @ Nov 19 2007, 11:13 AM) I don... Nov 19 2007, 09:34 AM speculatrix OK, I've suspended Alves
and deleted the post... Nov 19 2007, 09:26 AM Meyer I've deleted the topic Alves started in OESF W... Nov 19 2007, 09:28 AM speculatrix I got back responses from rackspace (who seem to h... Nov 19 2007, 01:56 PM speculatrix a little off-topic, but spammers are pretty cunnin... Nov 20 2007, 03:03 PM |
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