The Air Must Be Contaminated Today!

There must be something in the air today! It would appear that the world has gone SPAM crazy – well that’s big news! You may already have read the Fife SPAMMERS story. Well I also had to do more I.T. policing this morning: I found myself having to delete a user from Scottish Developers only minutes after they had registered.

The individual represents a “company” who have in the past abused the terms and conditions, ignored request from the support team and generally been totally unprofessional in their SPAM like activities. We even gave them opportunities and options to get their product featured on Scottish Developers, but they didn’t seem to want to take us up. Perhaps their product is junk and would be found out under more intensive scrutiny of real world developers. Perhaps they don’t want developers to have a real review of the product. Perhaps … perhaps …

On this occasion they posted their usual advertisement onto the forums for it to be immediately removed before anyone could read it, the account was deleted, the IP address banned, the company name banned from being used as an account name in the future and a word censoring rule defined so their company name will be featured as #XOOPS#! But I doubt this will be enough. They will just find another computer with a different IP address, re-register and attempt to post the same advertisement again and again, all in the vain hope of reaching a few developers.

However, the team at Scottish Developers are vigilant and will continue to stop their immoral business practices.