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Old 10-06-2009, 11:45 AM   #1
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Especially for those who post something seeming innocuous with advertising in the sig....
Yeah They actually got me on that one I missed it Alatar however was not fooled
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Old 10-06-2009, 12:16 PM   #2
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My question is, has anyone actually ever bought anything from a spammer? Has this form of marketing ever proven to be anything but obnoxious? And do the spamites ever consider using a spell-check, because rarely do they post anything coherent.
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Old 10-06-2009, 12:22 PM   #3
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My question is, has anyone actually ever bought anything from a spammer? Has this form of marketing ever proven to be anything but obnoxious? And do the spamites ever consider using a spell-check, because rarely do they post anything coherent.
I think, seeing as we are likely one of the last bastions of good spelling on teh Interwebs, that they never give spell-check a thought, as they likely don't bother to read us. They may, in fact, be unable to read our spelling.
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Old 10-06-2009, 12:27 PM   #4
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My question is, has anyone actually ever bought anything from a spammer?
My question is about reciprocity. As these spammers leave a sign pointing back to their caves, how can that be used to send them something...ah...special?
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Old 10-06-2009, 01:27 PM   #5
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My question is, has anyone actually ever bought anything from a spammer? Has this form of marketing ever proven to be anything but obnoxious? And do the spamites ever consider using a spell-check, because rarely do they post anything coherent.
On another forum we had a member who replied to one of those Nigerian scam letters and proceeded to have a lengthy correspondence with a gentleman that he baited, reeled in, then released, over and over again, while duly posting the entire interchange. It was one of the funniest things I've ever read. Will see if I find it again.

But yeah, not the most erudite spammers on here...
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Old 10-06-2009, 02:01 PM   #6
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To begin with, would there be any way of making it impossible to register with a nick that consists of both
  • lower case letters only, and
  • more than two numbers at the end?
(still allowing for e.g. skip, Boro88 and autume98, but doing away with spmmr666 and all variations thereof)
I suppose any challenge to actually use their brains (or even be creative) would be to spammers what garlic is to vampires.
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Old 10-07-2009, 09:53 AM   #7
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It's mostly bots, guys. Bots are like zombies. Neg-repping them doesn't hurt them. "You gotta shoot them in the head."
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Old 10-07-2009, 10:29 AM   #8
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It's mostly bots, guys. Bots are like zombies. Neg-repping them doesn't hurt them. "You gotta shoot them in the head."
Yeah, a good thing about these spam-bots is how they make it clear the day the machines will rise up and enslave us all is well into the future
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Old 10-07-2009, 04:52 PM   #9
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Yeah, a good thing about these spam-bots is how they make it clear the day the machines will rise up and enslave us all is well into the future
I like ur post. Thank for sharing. For me it makes perfect sens ... bzzt ... znnnk ... bwwwwwwvvv ...

On the contrary, skip, I find the latest generation of spambots, with their ability to select quotes from the thread and comment on them, rather disturbing. For now, they remain relatively easy to spot, but it is surely only a matter of time before they are able to mingle among us undetected ...

In fact, for all we know, there may be regular posters here who are actually fiendishly clever spambots trying to reel us in to buy whatever it is they have to sell.

Btw, did I ever tell you about Fantasy Flight Games ...
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