I'm just thinking that you could automate communication betw. del. and other interested parties, and that part of this communication could be *inbound*, alerting del. and/or Y! to "bad" IP addresses, etc....
Matthew
[1] http://www.cc.gatech.edu/index.php?searchword=merrick+furst&option=com_search&Itemid=&searchphrase=all
On 2/12/06, joshua schachter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There's a bunch of heuristics to deal with this stuff. Looks like we
need a few more.
Thanks for pointing this out.
Joshua
On Feb 12, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Greg Ritter wrote:
> Wow, I'm sure this has happened before, but this is the first time
> I've noticed spam on the del.icio.us/popular page. This afternoon
> there is a series of 20+ links all with the title of "[Celebrity
> name] in Relationships", all posted initially by the same account,
> all also posted by the same dozen other accounts, and all of the
> links point to a machine-generated crap page on the same website
> (which is selling some relationship analysis bullshit).
>
> The 20+ links are all for celebrity pages that have first names
> starting with "A," and it looks like the original cockroach
> (username: shlomot) has loaded del.icio.us up with almost 300 of
> these spam links tied to celebrity names (although his other fake
> accounts don't seem to have linked all 300 yet).
>
> How common is this problem? How is it dealt with?
>
> --greg
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