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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Fun this morning - one of our number has been happily zapping spammers, I've followed on by marking each of them Resolved, so taking them out of the moderation queue; we were almost certainly working at the same time - hands across the sea.....   It wasn't so much the number of them this morning, as the inordinate length: I wonder if TEMU realizes the damage these characters are doing to their brand; not that I'd have bought from them anyway.  
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I notice then but couldn’t mark them as Resolved from my phone for some reason I kept scrolling down as as you said Robert they were long . No idea what they we’re selling or what they were trying to con out of us but definitely not related to art . 

Norrette Moore

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Hi, there.  I wonder if the spam blocker is also banning the users? I get an email for each one, I was going to to see if they have been banned, but I'm having a busy week (tidying the garden etc before winter next week, and also installing my new pc)
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Mark Taylor

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Fun this morning - one of our number has been happily zapping spammers, I've followed on by marking each of them Resolved, so taking them out of the moderation queue; we were almost certainly working at the same time - hands across the sea.....   It wasn't so much the number of them this morning, as the inordinate length: I wonder if TEMU realizes the damage these characters are doing to their brand; not that I'd have bought from them anyway.  
Robert Jones, NAPA on 14/11/2024 08:23:29
Good morning moderators, Thanks for helping tackle the spam this morning! Just to clarify, it's our spam detection system that's automatically zapping those posts before they flood the boards. We still add the zapped items to the moderation queue so you can review them, resolve any false positives and ban users if needed. Thanks again for your vigilance, Mark.

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Norrette Moore

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It's useful seeing the words picked up by the system.  I went back to Lew's post of the multi sketch page and it scored points for spam  on the word 'm eth' - very puzzling.  I even searched the code in the image, but finally realised he used the word 'som ething'. Edited: to put a space in the offending word before this post gets blocked too :)

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Tessa Gwynne

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Interesting, not to mention challenging! Well spotted Norette.