Regular indymedia readers will be aware of the massive quantity of Turkish language spam all the sites have been enduring the past few months, most of all Indymedia Notts and Indymedia UK.  A group of concerned pixies decided to do a bit of digging using a system root password on the UK site to enable us to track the source.  ( All IP details were erased after the investigation).

The source is somewhat of a surprise;  an Indymedia UK moderator.   This seemed to make no sense, was there some sort of sophisticated divert software being used, were we in James Bond territory here with shady agents of the State attempting to make a mod look guilty and discredit them ?  Well no, in fact what the evidence pointed at was exactly what was going on.  One Indymedia UK moderator was and is flooding the newswires with Turkish language spam copied and pasted from a Turkish football site.  Now of course we needed to understand why and this time the answer (after much digging) was found in the IRC chat files that records and exchange between two mods:  The chat is reproduced here but the names removed for reasons we shall make clear later.

 

-@@@- Better use /MSG instead of /NOTICE.

 

/QUERY @@@ *** Starting conversation with @@@ -> *@@@* If the hidden section is filled with spam nobody will bother going through it  -> *@@@* Well how about football results ?
-> *@@@* Cool can U handle that ?
/QUERY *** Ending conversation with @@@

At this stage and after much discussion it has been decided not to name the people involved, sufficient to say we know who they are and now they know that we know.

 

Our deal is simple, stop doing it and we will not name you, continue and we will.