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forum becoming unusable [message #752484]

Wed, 26 October 2011 12:07

R Shapiro

Messages: 386
Registered: June 2011

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Can something be done about the endlessly repeating posts coming from "Elke Stepper", for instance rejecting them? Presumably this person's account has been hijacked, or his/her web browser is damaged.

I'd filter them locally but that doesn't seem to be an option. If it is, can someone tell me how to do it?

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Re: forum becoming unusable [message #753346 is a reply to message #752484]

Wed, 26 October 2011 15:34

Ed Merks

Messages: 33140
Registered: July 2009

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<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
In fact this appears to be a problem with NNTP shadowing to the web
forum, not intentional spamming: 
<blockquote><a
href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=361893">https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=361893</a> 
</blockquote>
In NNTP there is only a single post (with a few replies that look
like broken threads). It's all very annoying in any case... 
 
Hopefully my post won't be repeated dozens of times... 
 
 
On 26/10/2011 2:07 PM, R Shapiro wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:j88sdq$17d$1@news.eclipse.org" type="cite">Can
something be done about the endlessly repeating posts coming from
"Elke Stepper", for instance rejecting them? Presumably this
person's account has been hijacked, or his/her web browser is
damaged.
 
 
I'd filter them locally but that doesn't seem to be an option. If
it is, can someone tell me how to do it?
 
 
 
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>

Ed Merks
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Re: forum becoming unusable [message #753373 is a reply to message #752484]

Wed, 26 October 2011 22:24

Matthias Sohn

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see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=361893

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Re: forum becoming unusable [message #753374 is a reply to message #753346]

Wed, 26 October 2011 22:26

Matthias Sohn

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Registered: July 2009

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it seems all posts from NNTP clients are at least hard to read from the web forum as the HTML is rendered literally, looks like the web forum needs some fix

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