[Tracker-discuss] [issue105] Dealing with spam

[Izak Burger]

Izak Burger added the comment:

Erik Forsberg wrote:
> Sehr geehrter Izak, (Hey, it's been 14 years since I last studied the german 
> language, but at least I understand some phrases :-)  )

My german is limited to a 3 months course I took while at university and 
a couple of books I read in my free time (one of which was the rather 
difficult "Der unerträgliche leichtichkeit des seins").  And my own 
language (Afrikaans) is close to Dutch which I also find very close to 
German (at least in structure) so I have enough of a vocabulary to read 
german but way too little to speak it.  I mean, when you read something 
and you see Der, Die or Das you know it means "the", but when you speak 
it you have to know which one to say :-)

> As a quick hack, I've removed the actual files that contained spammy messages 
> (about 35 of them) from ~roundup/trackers/tracker/db/files/file/7/. This will 
> generate error messages when trying to download the files, which is OK.

I noticed.  Thanks for that, at least the spammer has been voiled.  Tis 
a pitty that bugs.python.org is now spammed onto people's blogs but I 
suppose the damage has been done and there is no going back now.

Tschuss,
Izak

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