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

Lukas Fleischer lfleischer at archlinux.org
Sun Jul 12 18:24:36 UTC 2015


On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 at 18:25:47, Andrejs Mivreņiks wrote:
> 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.
> [...]

I deleted all 15 comments the user posted. Given that only a very low
number of packages were affected, I suspect that he copy-pasted the
message manually. There is really nothing we can do about that (apart
from disabling comments)...


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