RE: [ga] Lesbians at ICANN

["Kieren McCarthy" <kieren.mccarthy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all, I maintain most of the ICANN websites.

 

Wrt to preventing comments on old posts. Yes, in fact, you haven't been able
to post comments to the Sao Paulo site for nearly a year - in fact 11
February 2007 - when we archived the site.

 

The comment spam all came from a single person, calling himself ma1kova74
and coming from ma1kova74@xxxxxxx.

 

He/she posted 160 comments between 14 Jan 07 and 10 Feb 07. There were no
other spam comments and the last legitimate spam comment was posted by me on
8 December 06.

 

 

What clearly happened was this the poster used the gap between the end of
the meeting and the site being archived to fire comment at the site. We
didn't notice and archived the comments with it, so I just went in and
pulled them all out.

 

This was the first meeting participation site built for ICANN (by an
external third party) and as a result the archiving took a while. Since Sao
Paulo we have archived meeting sites a week to a month after the meeting
ends. I believe we make a point of doing any tidying necessary at that
stage, but I will go back and have a look to see if any comment spam sneaked
through.

 

These 160 comments are the vast majority of only spam comments on ICANN
websites (there will always been a few that get through and are harmless
enough not to be worth tracking down).

 

And so everyone should feel free to continue searching within ICANN websites
without having their sensibilities irretrievably damaged.

 

 

 

Kieren

 

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Kieren McCarthy

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General manager of public participation, ICANN

http://www.icann.org <http://www.icann.org/> 

 

 

From: David Scott <tlda@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:18:12 -0800
Cc: <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Conversation: [ga] Lesbians at ICANN
Subject: Re: [ga] Lesbians at ICANN



Kinda goes to show you.... who's maintaining?

Shouldn't the blog logs of important stuff have at least some dumb check
on posting?

I gave up on google'ing for ICANN blogs, and such, due to the nature of
some of the content.

David Scott
http://ucann2.org

George Kirikos wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> No, this post isn't some undercover investigation on the lifestyles of
> ICANN staffers..... :)
>
> I noticed there's a large amount of pornographic comment spam on ICANN
> blogs, e.g. see:
>
>
http://www.google.com/search?num=30=en=off=site%3Aicann.org+lesbians=Search
<http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&safe=off&q=site%3Aicann.org+lesbi
ans&btnG=Search>
<http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&safe=off&q=site%3Aicann.org+lesbi
ans&btnG=Search> 
>
> (i.e. doing a search at Google of "site:icann.org lesbians" )
>
> Someone should be monitoring the comments, and making it so that new
> comments can't be added to very old articles. With ICANN's relatively
> high page rank, it attracts spambots looking to inflate the rank of
> other sites.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> George Kirikos
> http://www.kirikos.com/
>
>


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