http://freepascal.org/contrib/db.php3?category=Miscellaneous

Someone should lock off that section of the website.. temporarily.

It is getting spammed and filling up the database fast.

Maybe just temporarily lock it off and keep the other sections open (i.e. do not allow posting).

The sections like Internet/File Handling/etc. haven't been spammed because Miscellaneous is the default section that the spammers use in the drop down menu it seems.

Strange. Normally, every addition causes a mail to be sent to fpc- announce which then ends up in the moderation queue. When I see it's spam, I then also delete the entry in the database. But I haven't seen any mails being sent to fpc-announce lately.

It's true that thing needs much better spam protection though, because deleting all those spam entries also gets annoying after a while.

Jonas

Jonas Maebe wrote

Strange. Normally, every addition causes a mail to be sent to fpc- announce which then ends up in the moderation queue. When I see it's spam, I then also delete the entry in the database. But I haven't seen any mails being sent to fpc-announce lately.

Actually: those mails have been sent to fpc-announce, but mailman did not inform me about the fact that new mails were held for moderator approval. I still get such mails for fpc-pascal and fpc-devel, so that's quite strange.

Jonas

Thanks Jonas for cleaning it up, looks much better. However, what the heck?
I just found another one today:

http://freepascal.org/contrib/delete.php3?ID=2481

Thanks Jonas for cleaning it up, looks much better. However, what the heck? I just found another one today:

Yes, they are added daily (probably by some bot), so you have to keep cleaning up. At least I again get mail from mailman about fpc- announce posts, so I won't forget it anymore for now.

Jonas