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Moin,
On Friday 04 May 2007 11:33:47 Platonides wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
The current ILLEEEEGIL NUMBAH is in the spam
filter owing to
fight-the-power morons cut'n'pasting it into every input box on the
web, including ours. Probably a good idea.
That said, do we have stats on the rate of ILLEEEEGIL NUMBAH spamming?
Does the spam filter keep a count of attempts? It would be good to
know when this idiocy has calmed down and we can think about writing
about it [*].
[*] with appropriate consideration of legal issues, community matters,
editorial matters, NPOV, whether Hollywood has been turned into a
glass crater by the sheer force of worldwide contempt, etc., etc. I'm
just asking about the spam filter here.
- d.
Note that this is not a "complete solution". Simply writing it into 2
lines, bypasses the filter.
I bet decimal, binary and other variants aren't catched, neither. However,
if it stops the idiots spamming it, than thats fine with me :)
Good however to stop most of these spam. I wonder why
didn't digg simply
applied a regex too.
Because they are idiots?
All the best,
Tels
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