CLUE and linux.ca

G. Matthew Rice matt-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Mon Jul 11 16:34:14 UTC 2005


John Macdonald <john-Z7w/En0MP3xWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> writes:
> Matt, I just went to linux.ca and the related twiki.  As I scanned some of
> the user bio's I see that a number of them have what appears to be spam
> inserted the page: GMatthewRice and BillTraynor were the ones I found
> (after looking at 4 users, so I am guessing that it was done to everyone
> who has had a page for a long time) - the spam links to a variety of pages
> such as AustralianRealEstate that contain the same text.
> 
> Now if this stuff is actually there intentionally and I'm just missing the
> point, that's fine.

LOL, no they aren't supposed to be there.  Just more proof that the internet
sucks sometimes.  I guess we'll have to look into some of the wiki-spam
prevention patches :(

Thanks for the heads up.  I never look at the user list.

Regards,
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