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Live Challenge spam
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 3:26 pm
by mart0258
I received a message inviting me to some "Live Challenge 3", which originated from a new user. Anyone else received a copy as well?
While the
level 1 user did solve a few problems, I don't expect mail to be sent like that in bulk - especially when a simple forum posting would do.
Re: Live Challenge spam
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:31 pm
by Faux
I did, too. www youngprogrammer com so it appears in the search results on the forum. Sounds like pure spam to me.
Re: Live Challenge spam
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:56 pm
by 3n1gm4
It mailed me too. What about adding a captcha to the messaging system?
Re: Live Challenge spam
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:01 pm
by hk
Could you PM the mail to me? Preferably with the entire header?
Re: Live Challenge spam
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:36 pm
by quilan
PM'ed
Re: Live Challenge spam
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:51 am
by hk
I sent him this email
You sent the following message to
www.youngprogrammer.com at Project Euler:
Hi,
several Project Euler members complained that they received a message from you about a contest you seem to be recruiting participants for. Please be aware that not everyone is charmed by such unsollicited email.
If you want to make an announcement about something you think Project Euler participants may be interested in please use or bulletin board at
http://projecteuler.chat/ instead.
Wishing you the best with your undertaking and trusting that you will not use our mailing system again for making announcements for your own projects,
on behalf of the Project Euler team
Hans Klein (aka hk)
Re: Live Challenge spam
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:55 pm
by 3n1gm4
Am I too evil in thinking those links will provide him so many "free" pagerank?
My hint is to remove them
Re: Live Challenge spam
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:16 pm
by hk
If one searches for what??????
Come on. Does he sell medicines or so?
Re: Live Challenge spam
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:03 pm
by vineet
3n1gm4 wrote:Am I too evil in thinking those links will provide him so many "free" pagerank?
My hint is to remove them
Better still, all links in the forum should be attributed with rel="nofollow", to minimize the incentive for forum spam as well.
Re: Live Challenge spam
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:30 am
by hk
And I received this reply:
Thank you hk,
Yes, i have realized that was a big mistake from me. I really apologize for that.
So I think everything is settled now. Case closed.