WIKI Spam

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 16:16:59 UTC 2012


On 26 November 2012 16:04, Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A user 'Gregbanks' is adding links to car insurance website to the
> Fedoraproject wiki, p.e. at
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Archive:FUDCon:Milan_2011. As his own user
> info points at info at acheapcarinsurance.net, it it very likely that he tries
> to use our wiki to increase the ranking  of his websites at p.e. Google
> searches.
> Can you block his account or do something else to prevent this ?

Thank you Karsten. He only changed one page and the spam has been
removed and Greg has been disabled.

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Stephen J Smoogen.
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"Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh
so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I
recommend pleasant. You may quote me."  —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd



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