[Bf-webcontent] Re: Spam to the links section

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Doug showed me a couple yes, very weird. You might try to contact the  
people behind these website sumbissions, with a message like;

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Dear xxx,

We have received your submission to get linked on blender3d.org.  
Unfortunately we cannot accept the link, since your website  
(apparently) has no relationship with Blender.
Please let us know why you prefer to be linked?

Note; if this link submission wasn't done by your company, but on  
behalf of you by a third party, we would appreciate you to notify them  
to stop doing it. Our website is being maintained by volunteers, and we  
cannot afford the extra work of 'fake' submissions.

With kind regards,

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With a little luck one of these companies will give us some info what  
goes on... if this really goes out of control, we could try to find in  
the weblogs who actually did this submission, and just block the domain  
from accessing blender3d.org.

-Ton-


On 16 Nov, 2004, at 12:54, Doug Ollivier wrote:

> Hi guys,  the links section is being tapped by spam,  with a  number  
> of totally non-blender related sites being submitted regularly.
>  
> well it has gotten to be weird.
>  
> 33% of submissions are genuine submissions
> 33% are spam
> about 20% are sites that don't exist or are not blender related but  
> are 3d related.
> and 10% are professional sites.
>  
>  
> the amount of spam and totally blender non-related submissions is  
> pretty crazy.  (its not huge in quantity. i.e. maybe 5 e-mails total  
> per week)  but the proportion is a bit weird.
>  
> much of the spam is webhosting companys (i.e. resellers probably)
>  
> any suggestions on fixing this problem.
>  
>  
> Douglas Ollivier (Alltaken)
>
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