[GRASS5] wiki spam

Stephan Holl holl at gdf-hannover.de
Tue Mar 21 02:31:24 EST 2006


Hello Hamish, 

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:57:50 +1200 Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Hi, 
> I just removed some invisible wiki spam from the main GRASS wiki page.
> 
> They create an account on a popular wiki site and paste in a huge list
> of URLs to try and get their spam customers a better Google ranking.
> For better survival these parasites use html codes that make the links
> invisible to the casual user.
> 
> The offending user id this time was "VitSet"
>   http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/twiki/bin/view/Main/VitSet
> 
> can their IP number be blacklisted? (mostly as a feel-good measure)

Thanks for pointing this out. I have disabled this account.

Best

	Stephan


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