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I believe you are referring to the article I linked to earlier. In my mind that is spam, but I would also like hear what the higher authorities think about it.
That article alone has given the member +15K Author points, but when someone asks a question in the article's forum, he is unable to answer it (unless it is about how to register the component).
Soren
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I didn't check those link of your message. But yes, I am speaking about them. Although SummiG has 4 Articles and two tips. And you are right, the contributions are only to say thanks, to point to the site or to help purchasing / registering.
M.D.V. 
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Helping to clean up the list below I have found Generate Excel from XML and Generate XML from Excel[^] it looks quite OK, but it is actually pointing to the same product that all spammers, the user is gone time ago.
I don't really understand if the method described at the beggining is OK. but after the "Generate XML from Excel" (4th code snippet) it is the spam.
If the first half is legitime... should we delete the spam and leave the rest?
EDIT:
This article Reading and Writing Excel using OLEDB[^] seems OK to stay, but it has some links that could be deleted too, "you may buy a component for it (...) Here are some ideas:" (one is not existing anymore). What do you think?
M.D.V. 
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modified 1-Sep-13 6:40am.
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In a weird way I am a bit surprised you found more Spire spammers that I have not seen before (I actually have some additional links).
I am not sure about TracyLandy in your list. I am just not seeing any real spam in the 3 answers, but maybe that's because the spammy answers have already been removed.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I was following the answers of the first link and I start to find the others, when you see the spammy answers in a row, you start seeing similitudes in the code snippets or things like that.
On the other hand, they somehow give clues, they changed the username, but the member ID is the same, so when you spot one commenting the answer of another one in such a positive way, you check the other nick and see that from 50+ answers in the list, 30+ were always in the same thema. Legitimate users usually answer in very different questions, not always the same thematic.
That's how I spot them
about TracyLandy, you are right. Only 3 messages: 2 with code, in one of them she says "I create it with a third party component", the other one I don't know if it is really a legitime Word-Automation and not part of that lib. The 3rd post is just junk non-answer in a message where 3 other spammers of the same group answered. If you think it is not enough, then don't report.
M.D.V.
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Yes, I do pretty much the same, but also by checking the posts to the spam articles and checking up on the members that only have positive things to say.
A while ago I spent a lot of time doing that and found 3 or 4 other Spire spammers (they are now down to zero answers, so I did not list them), but you still found 3 Spire spammers I had not encountered before. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Just cLick the ".NET Word"-links provided in the solutions.
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Yes, there is still a lot of spam from Spire (e-iceblue) scattered all around.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Don't see any spam. Maybe bad English but where is the spam?
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Look at the latest messages of this user and you will see that every message provides a link to "Wisen Technologies"
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95% of the messages has a link ".Net Training in Chenai" pointing to a web site just the same name as the user.
M.D.V.
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Both gone
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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