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How can we fight this spam which is attacking RC nowadays? I don't like too much black listing of netblocks as suggested maybe somewhere, since you could block also "common" people. I've seen a brand new spam user after posting to Named Argument, and I've discovered I can't do too much more than saying I've seen it. I've also noticed the name of these spammers follow a pattern which could be identified (but likely will change...) ... --[[User:ShinTakezou|ShinTakezou]] 11:17, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
How can we fight this spam which is attacking RC nowadays? I don't like too much black listing of netblocks as suggested maybe somewhere, since you could block also "common" people. I've seen a brand new spam user after posting to Named Argument, and I've discovered I can't do too much more than saying I've seen it. I've also noticed the name of these spammers follow a pattern which could be identified (but likely will change...) ... --[[User:ShinTakezou|ShinTakezou]] 11:17, 29 June 2009 (UTC)