On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 09:56:20PM +0200, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > On 30 September 2012 21:11, Dave Reisner <d...@falconindy.com> wrote: > > Well they're certainly doing something weird. I found an odd package of > > their own with a large amount of spam on it, and a rather spammy name, > > as well. > > Given that the other package of this user seems to be perfectly OK, I > have a feeling that invented's account may have been hijacked. > > On a related note, it may be good to add some time limit between > unflagging/flagging package out of date. This would make life of > notorious flaggers more difficult. > > Have a nice day, > Lukas
There's little reason to hijack an account, particularly one with only 2 packages, when you create one with a phony email address (mailinator, etc) and do whatever you want with it. I filed a bug report for what I thought was the more obvious fix: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31745 If you have someone trying to spam you with out of date messages, its at least rate limited by your own sense of apathy. dave
