[Imc-web] Advertising, Plain and Simple

[Mike Lehman]

Looks like the latest trend in spam has arrived at our IMC. We have been 
bombarded by ads for viagra, home loans, etc. over the last few days, 
which are all the same, except for the article titles. I am a little 
behind on letting people know about what I'm doing with this due to 
having to struggle with the power failure here at home, but I have saved 
one copy of this offending material and have been totally deleting the 
rest, as I see little point in saving them and because it's quicker than 
just hiding them.

Maiko told me that this has been happening on blogs and other such 
web-based posting forums and that this is all suspected as being 
automated. Sometimes they show up singly, but more often in batches of 
half a dozen or so.

My guess there is no easy technical fix to this, i.e. IP blocking, but 
if there is, we should consider it. In the meantime, they are all going 
to the memory hole.
Mike Lehman