On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Robert Kern<robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2009-06-08 07:44, Skip Montanaro wrote: >> >> On Jun 5, 1:39 pm, joep<josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Is there a way to ban spammers from pypi? >> >> Can you provide some examples? It's possible that we can apply >> SpamBayes >> to PyPI submissions in much the same way that we apply it in other non- >> mail >> areas. > > I suspect he might talking about all of the "1.0.1" releases of projects on > June 5th from "v y p e r l o g i x . c o m" or "p y p i . i n f o" > (obfuscated to avoid helping them out). Most of them appear to be removed, > now. These chuckleheads even have a blog post complaining about it. I can > collect a list from my Cheeseshop RSS history if you like. > > I don't think a SpamBayes approach will work for this particular guy. It's > not like completely fake metadata was uploaded with links to spam sites. > There actually is Python code for some of them. Maybe even some that is > marginally useful. But only marginally (Linked Lists for Python? Really?). > All of the code appears to use their proprietary, unreleased package. >
None of the code was useful, and I swear it all seemed like one giant ruse to bump google rankings for his pay-for-play sites and downloads. It was all just series of URLs back linking to his crap-sites. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
