Re: Web site spamming

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:11:37AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> The Tao Linux web site (www.taolinux.org) is used to promote some other web
> sites by spammers. Nearly every page has some comments unrelated to Tao Linux.
> The misbehavior started September 9th.
> 
> It's a really sad situation for me to see junk propagating on my favorite
> distribution web site.

The $%^&*( spammers are everywhere.  They hit the feedback pages on a
non-profit charity web site I manage, they leave comments on every web
site that supports anonymous comments and they spam by mail.  Anywhere
anonymous comments can be left, you'll find spam.

The days of anonymous postings on the Internet are numbered since it's
pretty much impossible to build really good anti-spam filters into all
of them.  

Since the Tao Linux site is based on Drupal, perhaps somebody might want
to work on a spamassassin interface to the comments code.

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
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