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[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

Hi Folk,
        Just though you'd like to know at least one company
has been attempting to spam the comments on the pfaf database.


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Luckly these never got through the filters. Strangly this is because 
they used an <h1> tag which is not in the allowed vocabulary. The fools 
never even checked that a single spam worked! Nearly 30,000 such spams 
have been attempted.

I've now added a site specifc filter to reject these submissions and 
written them a cease and desist email.

Monotoring submissions, I get each submission mailed to me, is a good 
way to catch such attackes early.

Laters

        Rich