[aur-general] spam in out-of-date notifications for [community] packages

[Abhishek Dasgupta]

2009/9/29 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> 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 It seems that someone is sending spam via out-of-date notifications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 How do I clear the out-of-date flag on my packages these days?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 :)

Can't we use Pierre's script to auto-check for updated
packages? Most upstream authors have a sane versioning
system -- so it should not be too difficult.

Abhishek