[IPython-dev] A quick question on the spam topic

[Fernando Perez]

On 10/12/07, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fernando Perez wrote:
> > Hi all (but Ryan probably knows best here):
> >
> > I tried to delete some pages using the 'delete page' action on the
> > left, but while I got the message 'page successfully deleted', I can
> > still see them.  For example:
> >
> > http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5
> > http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/%E7%BB%B4%E5%9F%BA%E6%B2%99%E7%9B%98%E6%BC%94%E7%BB%83
> >
> > Any idea of what I'm doing wrong?  (go ahead and delete them if you want, btw).
>
> They aren't spam. They're the Chinese-localized MoinMoin help pages.

Well, I tried to delete those two because they'd seen edits by known
spam usernames.  So I imagine what happened was that they appended
spam content somewhere in there.

Seeing how my Chinese is a bit rusty right now, I didn't know what was
what and was forced to use a rather blunt instrument.

Cheers,

f