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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Purge of Inactive Users with Zero Posts and Other Anti-spam Measures Post 303023528 by Neo on Tuesday 18th of September 2018 11:10:25 PM
Old 09-19-2018
Purge of Inactive Users with Zero Posts and Other Anti-spam Measures
In order to keep the site "clean, safe and warm", I have recently purged all accounts at UNIX.COM which meet the ALL of the following 3 criteria:
  • No user activity in 2018
  • No posts (zero post count)
  • Link in user profile.

In addition, I purged all users who registered but never confirmed their email address.

Also, instead of relying on flawed or inaccurate anti-spam databases or spam classifiers, I am manually inspecting new users in our database and we will actively delete users who are obviously registering on the site only to spam and/or post links to spammy sites.

The reason for this change is that anti-spam databases and anti-spam classifiers sometime block legitimate new users. We do not want any legitimate user with a UNIX/Linux problem (and an emergency need to be solve or helped) to be blocked. "AI' methods (Bayesian classifiers, ANN (artificial neural networks), etc ) are not really 100% reliable for blocking users and spam, and I don't want UNIX.COM to be dominated by "Bad AI" or "AI Gone Mad", so we are going to manage this directly in our database and will delete all new registered users who are obviously spammers.

UNIX.COM is fighting back against "bad AI' and so we will use humans, not machines, to manage user registration and spam until further notice.

Thank you as always for being a UNIX.COM team member.

Resist Bad AI (RBAI)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

dspam_dump

dspam_dump(1)							       DSPAM							     dspam_dump(1)

NAME

       dspam_dump - produce a dump of a user's metadata

SYNOPSIS

       dspam_dump [--profile=PROFILE] [-d sqlite_drv] username [token]

DESCRIPTION

       dspam_dump  dumps  a  user's metadata dictionary to stdout. This can be used to view the entire contents of a user's dictionary, or used in
       combination with grep to view a subset of data. The output provides the token's stored value (in CRC64 format), the number of spam and non-
       spam hits, and the token's computed probability.

OPTIONS

	--profile=PROFILE
	      Specify  a  storage profile from dspam.conf. The storage profile selected will be used for all database connectivity. See dspam.conf
	      for more information.

	username
	      The username of the user to dump. Only trusted users (or root) can use this program for the usernames  different	from  the  current
	      one.

	token
	      The text string of the token to search for and dump. If no token is specified, all tokens will be dumped to stdout.

EXAMPLES

       dspam_dump user Subject*Viagra

       Dumps the token Subject*Viagra, which represents the word Viagra in the Subject header, for the user specified.

EXIT VALUE

       0      Operation was successful.
       other  Operation resulted in an error.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2002-2011 DSPAM Project
       All rights reserved.

       For more information, see http://dspam.sourceforge.net.

SEE ALSO

       dspam(1), dspam_admin(1), dspam_clean(1), dspam_crc(1), dspam_logrotate(1), dspam_merge(1), dspam_stats(1), dspam_train(1)

DSPAM
								   Apr 17, 2010 						     dspam_dump(1)
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