Re: [Springframework-rcp-dev] [Spring-JIRA] Commented: (RCP-98) Flexdock integration

[Rogan D. <ro...@da...>]

Jan Hoskens wrote:
> Thanks for reporting this. I've removed the comments and the user.=20
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> I doubt that there is a real solution for this kind of spamming. Anyone
> can create a new jira-user. Only thing we can do (as far as I can see)
> is clean up afterwards as soon as we've spotted such abuse.
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> Kind Regards,
> Jan
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> On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 23:39 +0100, Mathias Br=C3=B6kelmann wrote:
>> Damn! What the hell ...
>>
>> How can we stop this? I've seen this on RCP-357 too...
>>

We can also speak to Atlassian to get JIRA set up to add "NOFOLLOW" tags=20
for all links embedded in comments, so that spammers do not benefit from=20
the abuse.

Also, careful trimming of our emails makes sure that they do not benefit=20
from web archives such as gmane, which likely do not use NOFOLLOW tags.

See <http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html>

Rogan