Re: php bug database abused for spamming

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Jeroen Schellekens wrote: > Last month i posted a possible bug in a win32 version of php 4.3.9. > this possible bug is still being investigated. that's not the reason > i'm sending you a mail however. > > today i received an e-mail which i believe is spam, containing > hundreds of links to massage and other weird websites. the e-mail > header, subject and sender fields are directly copied from the php bug > website, http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31523 > also, the complete thread found on the bugs site, as started by > myself, is appended at the end of this spam e-mail. It's just some asshole putting in a bug comment to lift on our high google ranking. I removed the comment now - this was not something scraped from our website. (Please, next time write those kinds of problems to systems@php.net) regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org