I wonder whether "dealing with this stuff" includes, e.g., cooperating w/ the likes of Merrick Furst at Georgia Tech[1], who leads a team that studies botnets; or law enforcement agencies, who presumably also study this sort of thing; or other areas of Y! who face the same issue.... Is there, btw, an "Anti-Spam Team" at Y!?... One would think something like this would make sense.

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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