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Thai, was it?
I just assumed it was Thai. Lao is also written using the Thai syllabary, but s/he was probably Thai.
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"susu" means - well YCLIU..
Back while I was still teaching classes in computer science, I had quite a few Thai students and many of their names ended in -porn. Mild co-inky-dinky? or the raisin debt for this one going into spam. If some modern-day Dante were to rewrite the Divine Comedy for today's audiences, there would no doubt be a special ring (or bowditch) in Hell for spammers.
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The link that was his signature was a link to an on-line gambling site. .
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Above or below lawyers?
The people I work with in rehab say the bottom rung of the
ladder of hell is reserved for them.
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Welcome. Dropping in on the Divine Comedy musings?
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Welcome. Dropping in on the Divine Comedy musings? I think they just like spam...
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To all the seven rings of Hell then!
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formerly known as etaoin...
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formerly known as etaoin...
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You are on the ball Buff 
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Way to catch that oft-repeated Thai gambling place.
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It is very good.
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Notified that it is spam.
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Was there more SPAM Luke.....I wonder why they bother?
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Was there more SPAM Luke.....I wonder why they bother? Because it works.
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Was there more SPAM Luke.....I wonder why they bother? It works. It trapped me. Actually the posting is still there: by the person above me known as 3-16, but Anu deleted the signature which was the spam: it was the usual signature in Thai ( I presume) for the casino in Bankok.
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Works? You mean the spammer makes a living out this? It must be just as boring a job as working in a call centre.
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Works? You mean the spammer makes a living out this? It must be just as boring a job as working in a call centre. The spammer writes a bot that goes out to various message boards such as this one, registers, and posts the spam as normal looking messages. Some of the cleverer ones will actually look like they're responding to something already posted. The less clever in that category will just repeat something already posted or say something like, "I found this to be very helpful." Sometimes there are links to the site being advertised right there in the post, sometimes it will be links in the poster's info page. They don't get a very high percentage of results but the volume they get from having a bot doing the heavy work makes it worthwhile. The defense against this is to make it more difficult to register, whether through Captcha, by requiring the registrant to respond to an email that takes them to a login page, or some other method of weeding out non-humans.
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This Thai gambling thing has been around a long time, so your
suggestion looks good to me.
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It trapped me. I may be wrong--one of the computer whizzes on here might better advise you--but this kind of thing would make me get my computer checked for viruses and other unwanted gremlins.
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Back in posting #200516, the signature was a link to
a gambling site - and it was written in Thai or someother
SE Asian language. The signature has been eliminated but
the posting remains.
Last edited by LukeJavan8; 06/26/2011 11:03 PM.
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Is that why they keep on at the "Pleonasm" thread-because it's programmed?
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The defense against this is to make it more difficult to register, whether through Captcha, by requiring the registrant to respond to an email that takes them to a login page, or some other method of weeding out non-humans. Ahhh that answers a question I had, from last week, when signing up for something on the internet. It asked me to copy a phrase to show I was human. Now I understand. I did think it funny at the time.
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Ahhh that answers a question I had, from last week, when signing up for something on the internet. It asked me to copy a phrase to show I was human. Now I understand. I did think it funny at the time.
This sort of thing will get more common and become more difficult. It's all part of the on-going war against spamming. As the tests get more difficult the spammers will get better at handling them. It may eventually lead to artificial intelligence.
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It may eventually lead to artificial intelligence. Ooh, ooh--can I have some?
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I know a few people with artificial intelligence.
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It may eventually lead to artificial intelligence. Ooh, ooh--can I have some? I said that after reading olly's post>>then look up and you said it first Jackie  I loved that concept in the movies, Matrix....where they plug into a computer and download information into their brains.
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Some of the cleverer ones will actually look like they're responding to something already posted. The less clever in that category will just repeat something already posted or say something like, "I found this to be very helpful." An example of a variant on this method is in Miscellany right now. I've already reported it to Anu so it may not still be there when you read this, but it is a post by Maryanne which reads in full: What was Ben Schott's reason for writing Schott's original miscellany? I need to know urgently, and also any other facts about the book. It was followed by some links to various commercial sites. This post was an initial post so it doesn't exactly fit my definition above, but spam nonetheless.
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I know a few people with artificial intelligence.
Yes, artificial is one of those qualifiers that has to do overtime semantics and pragmatics wise. In that sense it is like organic or chemical. "Junk food is full of chemicals!" Well, in point of fact, all our food is full of chemicals. The statement means that "Junk food is full of undesired chemicals." This is the sort of thing that language excels in, and which drives some people (with small dictionaries) crazy. The funny thing is that most humor would not be possible except for ambiguity, polysemy, and mispronunciation (or punning).
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Maybe if we change the name of the pleonasm thread the Thai bot will stop.
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Maybe if we change the name of the pleonasm thread the Thai bot will stop.
Or, we could lock the thread.
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Thai, was it?
I just assumed it was Thai. Lao is also written using the Thai syllabary, but s/he was probably Thai. Actually Lao uses a different alphabet (or abugida to be precise).
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Actually Lao uses a different alphabet (or abugida to be precise).
You're right, but I cannot really tell the difference between the two, as easily as I can between say the Devanagari and Tamil syllabaries.
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I always get here after the spam has already been reported and deleted. Is this the only thread it's been in? If so, I'll be happy to lock it if I can. And if anyone wants to continue the discussion--possibly under another title?--they can just copy the relevant posts and start a new thread.
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I think from my perspective the gambling sites in Thai, Lao
or whatever language they are, are on this thread. I've
reported them at least three times.
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I always get here after the spam has already been reported and deleted..... So you are not the only 'worker' on here then Jackie?
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Oh, no. This is Anu's site. Therefore I assume he's the one who has gotten rid of all of them in recent months. I'm just a person.
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And Caruso was just a singer.
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