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Re: Remove spam in GCC mailing list
- From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- To: David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 01:18:22 +0000
- Subject: Re: Remove spam in GCC mailing list
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <CAMumzTf8pVFW96vtax+eKPv3=v+66o8UGGbf=6FZtoy+Ewshog at mail dot gmail dot com> <CAMumzTfrm22vk+FVC0LwbgVbNCffTqM+Rn1dtP6BePegY9Y-9A at mail dot gmail dot com> <CAMumzTeWorn+1wUz0cH1_3SNhpjUyuaTgycah6rn7V+0Ti1F+w at mail dot gmail dot com> <CAH6eHdQCghQTBbRxO4h=t2VmkLaf5kLQG4k4BvSfHA0Lm314TA at mail dot gmail dot com> <1387501934 dot 4681 dot 6 dot camel at surprise>
On 20 December 2013 01:12, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 00:04 +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>> On 19 December 2013 23:15, Tae Wong wrote:
>> > More spam posts to be removed!
>>
>> Using an email address with "seo" in it makes you look like a spammer.
>>
>> Posting links to spam makes you look like a spammer.
>>
>> Posting meaningless crap about mozilla bugzilla permissions and
>> wine-devel makes you look like a bot.
>>
>> Can we ban this sender?
>
> Agreed, FWIW see also:
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-December/130727.html
The motivation seems obvious to me: create archived links to the spam
posts, giving them higher page rank.
We should find him and kneecap him, or if that's not possible ban him
from the list.