Re: [HITB-Announce] HITB2016AMS Videos & GSEC Singapore Voting

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > Robert Haas wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Hafez Kamal <aphesz@hackinthebox.org> wrote:
> >> > See you in Singapore!
> >>
> >> This seems totally off-topic.  Shouldn't a post like this result in a ban?
> >
> > It is off-topic.  Sorry that it got through.  We get dozens of these
> > every week, and the vast majority are rejected; I suppose some moderator
> > slipped up (might have been me).
> 
> Ah, I didn't realize that this was an ongoing issue.  Thanks for
> getting rid of as many of them as you do.
> 
> > I see that this is a repeat of an incident you already complained about
> > in January 2014.  Will look into what happened exactly, and if a ban is
> > warranted, I'll implement that.  Conference spammers have gotten pretty
> > annoying ...
> 
> Thanks!

The logs say I slipped up myself :-(  No need for a specific ban for
this one, since this is the only post in the last 30 days.  The problem
is that there are several different conference scammers.

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