[Seattle-editorial] imperialist spam

[anarch3m]

Erarse the repeat no new comments junk.  Don't hide it- erase it and leave a note to the effect!

walt
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--------- Original Message ---------

DATE: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 20:03:29
From: "nathaniel t" <vsea75 at hotmail.com>
To: g at art13.com, typist at speakeasy.net,seattle-editorial at indymedia.org
Cc: 

>I'm not talking about us removing original content because it's Republican 
>or worse -- although I don't personally think that would be a bad thing -- 
>I'm talking about us doing something about the bad guys _copying_ legit 
>comments and _spamming_ them in there more than a dozen more times.
>
>There are (approximately) 48 legit comments, and then one called "Repeat," 
>posted by someone named "Repeat," that _includes_ some of the earlier 
>comments, and no original material, repeated about _13 times,_ and then 
>about 20 more legit comments.
>
>Broken into pieces, the article takes up the following amounts of space on 
>my desktop:
>
>original post and earlier comments:   83 KB
>spam comment by Mr. Repeat:          622 KB
>later comments after the spam:        37 KB
>
>This kind of sabotage is clever and not immediately obvious, but I think 
>it's worth correcting when it happens.
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: "Gentry Lange"
>Reply-To:
>To: ,"nathaniel t" ,
>Subject: RE: [Seattle-editorial] imperialist spam
>Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 10:06:16 -0700
>Nathaniel, is there some way to figure out if it's all from the same IP?
>Because if not, I'm not sure on what grounds we would hide all the
>responses. Some of them are clearly threatening, but other than those I'm
>not sure.
>Gentry
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: seattle-editorial-bounces at lists.indymedia.org
>[mailto:seattle-editorial-bounces at lists.indymedia.org]On Behalf Of
>typist at speakeasy.net
>Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 8:03 AM
>To: nathaniel t; seattle-editorial at indymedia.org
>Subject: Re: [Seattle-editorial] imperialist spam
>Nathaniel, Unfortunately there is no way to delete comments without
>deleting the original post; I've tried. Perhaps someone else can get in
>there behind the code and tweak it in this instance, but this is one of
>several glitches in the current code base that is so frustrating. BTW what
>is the title of the article; everytime I put in the link my computer just
>grinds to a halt, so I can't actually see what the problem is. If this is a
>bunch of comments to one article, we might want to repost the article, and
>delete the original.
>Please give me the title and author of the post.
>Thanks for pointing this out.
>Judy
>>-----Original Message----- From: nathaniel t [mailto:vsea75 at hotmail.com] 
>>Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 04:22 AM To: 
>>seattle-editorial at indymedia.org Subject: [Seattle-editorial] imperialist 
>>spam
>>
>>somebody has posted the same material many times as a comment or comments
>to
>>
>>http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=32385
>>
>>creating a false impression of a huge pro-military, anti-peacenik response 
>>to the original article ... is it possible to hide a specific comment to a 
>>newswire post?
>
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