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i'm used to visit here once a day,maybe 2-3times,check new posts and see about half a page,maybe 1-2 pages at max.

today i click new posts button - 35 pages :twitch: 8-O

some robots reg'ed last night? :lol:
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I will get back on this shortly. Just removed 988 threads of spam, some of more than 1 reply. We had a handful of spambot all using outlook.com email addresses posting ~170 threads & replies...
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Subject: spam wave: handfull bots doing ~170 replies: short term considerations
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thats some attack...who the hell is that bored :|
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These are simply autonomous programs probably working from infected computers.

Why much of the spam is badly written: I'm guessing laziness and 2nd language that doesn't matter anyway since more 'incoming' links (links from all over pointing to your website) will make your site rank higher in search engines. 4

I was under the impression this incoming links nonsense had been curbed years ago by Google, but could be for other engines, or these bots are quite literally zombies that haven't had human involvement for years.
Ceramic wrote: Sun Jan 06, 2019 11:27 pm thats some attack...who the hell is that bored :|
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