Proposal --------Re: [Seattle-editorial] imperialist spam

[anarch3m]

we need to concense the proposal to erase the content of these duplications.  I can do some, Judy and Gentry, you can too  call if needing the password, though I can't think of any reason its not been given to you both.
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--------- Original Message ---------

DATE: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:16:04
From: typist at speakeasy.net
To: anarch3m at lycos.com, g at art13.com, seattle-editorial at indymedia.org, "nathaniel t" <vsea75 at hotmail.com>
Cc: 

>OK I think I see two things to be done here: Erase the duplicates comments -- I'm not sure how to do that.  If everyone agrees, can you do that Walt?
>
>The second idea to my mind would be to make a feature out of it as it seems to be a hot topic.  
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Judy
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:  anarch3m [mailto:anarch3m at lycos.com]
>> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 07:57 PM
>> To: g at art13.com, typist at speakeasy.net, seattle-editorial at indymedia.org, 
>> 'nathaniel t'
>> Subject: RE: [Seattle-editorial] imperialist spam
>> 
>> 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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