- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:13:08 -0500
- To: ot@w3.org, Andrew Cates <Andrew.Cates@sos-uk.org.uk>
- Cc: public-esw@w3.org, public-i18n-geo@w3.org
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 16:56 +0100, Andrew Cates wrote: > Dan, > > I have noticed that this month someone subscribed > public-i18n-geo@w3.org to be updated with all changes on the ESW > wiki, in a way which means links ´changed¡ on the wiki appear on the > mail-lists http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-geo/ as > live links. > > I think this is a bad move because lists.w3 is read by google, have > some page rank and links are given credit. So if a spammer puts up a > link, the mail-list credits the link, and then when I delete the link, > the mail-lists credit the link a second time. You seem to have a good point, but I'm not sure what to do about it. Olivier, would you please take the ball on this? Or perhaps Richard? > I am not sure who or how this mail list was subscribed to changes on > the wiki but I think it was a bad idea. It will not take very long > before spammers realize this wiki feature and start bombarding it > (even with the bad-links protection) > > I found this because I searched for a spammer to check if they had > spammed elsewhere and found they were all over lists.w3.org Which spammer? (feel free to tell me in private mail to avoid endorsing them via lists.w3.org ). > Andrew Cates > http://catesfamily.org.uk > -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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