[aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR

Andrejs Mivreņiks ml at gim.fastmail.fm
Sun Jul 12 16:25:47 UTC 2015


Hi,

Suspending the account is good, though what about messages? Are they
going to be removed? Also there is totally no spam protection that I know of at
this moment in AUR, at some point it might turn out to be a bigger problem than
that today.

Regards,
Andrejs

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On Sun, 12 Jul 2015, at 18:47, Muflone wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Il 12/07/2015 17:24, Andrejs Mivreņiks ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The user instmania[1] has posted spam links in the comments section
> > of almost every recently updated package. For example [2]
> > 
> > [1] https://aur4.archlinux.org/account/instmania/
> > [2] https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/warthunder/
> 
> 
> I've suspended the instmania account.
> I received his spam for one package of mine too.
> 
> Bye
> 
> 
> -- 
> Fabio Castelli aka Muflone


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