[aur-general] spam in out-of-date notifications for [community] packages

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 11:42:28 EDT 2009


On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Chris Brannon <cmbrannon79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that someone is sending spam via out-of-date notifications
> for packages in the official repos.
> How do I clear the out-of-date flag on my packages these days?
> I can't seem to be able to do that with the new interface.

Yeah, this happens, and we haven't really found a good solution to
this spam problem. I guess we could ban the IP address...

If anyone has an idea to solve the spam issue that's not super
intrusive, the code (archweb_pub) is publicly available :)


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