Pat Willener wrote on 2009-07-13 08:42:

Most of the time forum spammers do not try to spam the forum users, but search engines - to gain better ranking.

I don't understand why Jive doesn't just add rel="nofollow" to all links

inserted by users to negate any effect on pagerank these links have once

and for all. Granted, it is hardly the most pressing issue for Jive to

solve, but it is certainly one of the most trivial ones.

Jochem

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Jochem van Dieten

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JayJhabrix wrote on 2009-07-14 20:16:

Well... the SDA problem seems to have stopped for now... And the thread is still alive... What was the magic 'mantra'?

First of all, I have no idea what Jive is doing in the background. But

the magic mantra is pretty trivial.

Jive is running Postfix on their email gateway to route email to the

different forums they host. That mail gateway has a timeout of 2 days

(since I asked Jive to lower it to fix another issue

http://www.jivesoftware.com/jivespace/thread/50601). A timeout lower

then that is not recommended on a public gateway. So what Jive needs to

do to work around this issue is set up a private email gateway. The

easiest way is to set up another instance of Postfix, make sure the

public gateway delivers it there and from there it goes to the forums.

Set the private gateway to a maximum queue timeout of 2 hours and no

email will repeat for more then 2 hours.

It takes about an hour to set that up and from then on issues will

repeat at most 6 times.

Jochem

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Jochem van Dieten

http://jochem.vandieten.net/

Kath-H wrote :

Any idea why this happens so often to some people, and rarely or never to others?

I can think of three things. To know for sure, I would need access to

the log file produced in IncomingMessageQueueProcessor.java:

https://svn.jivesoftware.com/svn/dev/repos/jive/plugins/advancedemail/ trunk/src/com/jivesoftware/clearspace/plugins/advancedemail/incoming/I ncomingMessageQueueProcessor.java

Incidentally, if you check the change history of that file you will see

that Jive has added the first logging to try and find this problem on

March 17th, so before the AdvancedEmail plugin was installed in the

preview forums.

Jochem

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Jochem van Dieten

http://jochem.vandieten.net/

Why do we need this thread anyway?  Isn't it enough - and easier - just to click on the Report Abuse link?

Interesting thread.

Recently, a poster to one of the Premiere fora started to have his posts show up with what looked like a "spam" signature. It was a URL for Dell computers and did link to the Dell site. I mentioned that he needed to rethink his sig, and he had no clue as to what I was talking about.

It seems that some of his posts were being done through AOL, and he claimed to be adding nothing and also having no signature.

Now, I did not know that AOL was still in existance, but has anyone else seen such?

Hunt

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/467879

In this particular case, I asked about phones, e-mail (do not think that the Adobe fora are on NTTP any more), and he said that it was from a browser initially. He came back, and said, that the ones in question (his first two did NOT have the URL) were from AOL.

Now a question: in this case, it was a URL for a legit site (Dell Computers), but it was not at all germane to the discussion. What should policy be on something like that? The question that he raised was a good one. The discussion was progressing and he was furnishing useful data to help solve the issue, which was finally solved. If his posts with the URL (the AOL ones) were removed, then someone stumbling onto the thread would not have some critical data on the problem. What should policy be?

Just curious,

Hunt

pwillener wrote:

 

All posts by this user contain spam links: http://forums.adobe.com/people/uranusstars

What is the point of posting here if nobody acts upon it?

Posts where I click on the Report Abuse link are quickly acted upon, but not posts in this topic.  (I have now clicked the Report Abuse link on all posts of the above member.)

P.S. but I understand that report posts may get overlooked with all the off-topic noise in here...

P.P.S. forum hosts and moderators: do you have the ability to update posts?  If so, could you update report posts in here that have been acted upon, e.g. by appending something like done ?