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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 01:18:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: Remove spam in GCC mailing list
From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
To: David Malcolm <dmalcolm@redhat.com>
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On 20 December 2013 01:12, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 00:04 +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>> On 19 December 2013 23:15, Tae Wong wrote:
>> > More spam posts to be removed!
>>
>> Using an email address with "seo" in it makes you look like a spammer.
>>
>> Posting links to spam makes you look like a spammer.
>>
>> Posting meaningless crap about mozilla bugzilla permissions and
>> wine-devel makes you look like a bot.
>>
>> Can we ban this sender?
>
> Agreed, FWIW see also:
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-December/130727.html

The motivation seems obvious to me:  create archived links to the spam
posts, giving them higher page rank.

We should find him and kneecap him, or if that's not possible ban him
from the list.