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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:12:53 -0500
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Subject: Re: www.openoffice-forum.de <- Spam-Forum
From: Rob Weir <robweir@apache.org>
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:58 AM, drew <drew@baseanswers.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 13:51 +0100, Guenter Mehle wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> does the forum www.openoffice-forum.de have to be in the list?
>> This forum spreads much Polish Spam.
>> http://www.openoffice.org/de/foren.html
>>
>
> Halo Guenter
>
> Two things -
>
> First, I would think there are multiple edits for that page.
>
> Remove links for:
> www.ooo-portal.de
> www.openoffice-forum.de
> and
> forum.sun.com
>

I don't think we should remove links merely because they have some
spam in their forums.  Spam is a problem we all need to deal with.
The question should not be whether they have spam, but whether they
are providing a service for our users.  From what I can see,
openoffice-forum.de had a recent burst of spam, but they've also had
valid and useful discussions related to OpenOffice support.  So I
would not support removing them.

Remember, if we want to make spam a criterion for removing links to a
service, then we'd need to remove our own Bugzilla bugtracking
instance, for hosting over 1000 spam attachments:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aopenoffice.org+viagra


> The first entry for XNIG is malformed, needs update or removal.
>
> The newsgroups will need up dating also.
>
> Not sure who is going to handle the DE pages, is there already a hand up
> for that?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> //drew
>
>
>