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Post by TfS on May 20, 2008 8:07:46 GMT
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Post by Bertie on May 20, 2008 19:32:36 GMT
I thank you so much for this link. I had not thought to look on youtube. I encourage others to click on the other clips of Victor, particularly "A Mozart Opera" to which I was (erroneously) referring in my previous post.
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Post by Pete on Aug 1, 2008 7:19:54 GMT
Oh dear, airhead alert!
[Spam removed. pd]
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Post by Twoddle on Aug 1, 2008 8:02:24 GMT
Good grief; I don't think we've had that much of it before! I'm intrigued by it. Do those codes mean something, and how or why does the spammer pick on particular threads?
Still, it's an ill wind: it drew my attention to the Victor Borge link which must have appeared when I was away on holiday.
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Post by Dave on Aug 1, 2008 8:53:00 GMT
Good grief; I don't think we've had that much of it before! I'm intrigued by it. Do those codes mean something, and how or why does the spammer pick on particular threads? By random checking, each blue line appears to be a link to a Chinese website for products or services (some are in English). Some of the links aren't functional until the first h is removed from hhttp: ... It's not a good marketing strategy, so I wonder why it's done.
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Post by Pete on Aug 1, 2008 9:48:45 GMT
Perhaps they are hoping that if they send enough there will be a small number of Chinese speakers who just happen to want what they are offering! There was a Hunanese poster on the old APS website a few years ago - maybe he'd be interested! ;D
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Post by Alan Palmer on Aug 1, 2008 10:44:28 GMT
It's a spambot, which simply looks for forums that are open to this sort of attack and dumps its payload irrespective of the language or content of the site. No intelligence, human or machine, is involved.
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Post by Verbivore on Aug 1, 2008 10:59:27 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Aug 1, 2008 11:01:03 GMT
Ah - I see I'm a page or two behind.
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Post by Pete on Aug 1, 2008 12:27:27 GMT
It's a spambot, which simply looks for forums that are open to this sort of attack and dumps its payload irrespective of the language or content of the site. No intelligence, human or machine, is involved. Like a nanobot, but made of spam? ;D
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Post by Tone on Aug 1, 2008 20:26:41 GMT
>No intelligence, human or machine, is involved.<
Ah. A normal Internet user, then.
Tone
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Post by Paul Doherty on Aug 1, 2008 22:46:16 GMT
Some of the links aren't functional until the first h is removed from hhttp: ... It's not a good marketing strategy, so I wonder why it's done. The extra "h" is there to defeat forum filters which block postings which contain too many links. The purpose of the postings is to increase the google rankings of other sites. Google ranks sites in part by how many other sites have links to them (because good and useful sites will be often cited) -- and posting lots of forum links to sites thus raises them in Google's listings. It almost certainly doesn't work (Google rumbled it ages ago) but because people believe it works, the pointless attacks continue. Such is the power of rumour.
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