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justin whitaker
July 26th, 2007, 04:46 PM
On these guys:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3086071&postcount=1

I counted three different logins that are posting the same info throughout the forums.
Lord Illidan
July 26th, 2007, 04:48 PM
Just report them. I did so myself already.
justin whitaker
July 26th, 2007, 04:53 PM
Just report them. I did so myself already.

Already did.
matthew
July 26th, 2007, 04:57 PM
Keep reporting them. I'm doing an IP search now. The IP may get blacklisted.
PriceChild
July 26th, 2007, 05:08 PM
"keep reporting them" - there's a button top right of every single post which you may use to report users... the staff get them and we'll get all the users posts, jail them and ban them. Its how we've "quickly" got rid of everything so far so thanks to everyone reporting! :)
matthew
July 26th, 2007, 05:13 PM
The 6 or 7 users that shared that IP were all spammers posting the same stuff. I banned the IP address.
justin whitaker
July 26th, 2007, 05:14 PM
The 6 or 7 users that shared that IP were all spammers posting the same stuff. I banned the IP address.

Thanks guys. I never know which way is best to get your attention. I will just keep reporting when I see this sort of thing.

Fast work!
matthew
July 26th, 2007, 05:31 PM
Thanks guys. I never know which way is best to get your attention. I will just keep reporting when I see this sort of thing.

Fast work!Reporting the post is usually the best as we generally see that sooner. In any case, just letting us know however you can is appreciated. Thank you.
lisati
July 26th, 2007, 05:34 PM
On these guys:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3086071&postcount=1

I counted three different logins that are posting the same info throughout the forums.

I got a message saying that I didn't have permission to read the post...... the moderators are probably on to it.
yabbadabbadont
July 26th, 2007, 05:46 PM
The 6 or 7 users that shared that IP were all spammers posting the same stuff. I banned the IP address.

Just out of curiosity, did you check to see if that IP address is static? (Is there even a way to find out?) It would suck to be an innocent bystander that happens to share the same ISP as the spammer if the address is part of a DHCP pool. :D
matthew
July 26th, 2007, 05:52 PM
Just out of curiosity, did you check to see if that IP address is static? (Is there even a way to find out?) It would suck to be an innocent bystander that happens to share the same ISP as the spammer if the address is part of a DHCP pool. :DThere's no way to be certain that the IP is static...at least none that I know of, but we can unban IPs after a certain amount of time...usually long enough for whatever spammer is using it to have moved on. (shh! don't tell) :) In this case, there were lots of users registered with one specific IP, and all of them had posted spam today.