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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; 06/26/11 11:03 PM.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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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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