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Undertoad

01-27-2006 11:35 AM

Quick note on spam

It's no good replying to spam messages, because your words of wisdom are deleted when I remove the entire thread.

lumberjim

01-27-2006 11:41 AM

what if you miss it?

are you saying that you read every new thread?

if a spam thread sparks a conversation, will you still delete it? or would you split it out? is it really that big a travesty if your post gets deleted?

these are just some of the questions i have

Undertoad

01-27-2006 11:56 AM

I don't miss anything.

I read everything. Some things I read too fast.

I won't delete a spam thread if it sparks an interesting conversation.

My general feeling is that everything ought to remain around as long as possible.

Bring me more questions, I am not afraid.

Beestie

01-27-2006 12:03 PM

Are the spam posts posted by an actual registered person?

Can we go to his house and beat him up and give him an atomic wedgie and dangle him out the window by his ankles? Oh, and drink his beer and order pay-per-view on his TV? I know I'm forgetting something...

BigV	01-27-2006 12:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Bring me more questions, I am not afraid.

Hey lj!

Give him the quiz! :lol:!

edit: Yeah, I edited it. So what?

Undertoad

01-27-2006 01:09 PM

Every time a piece of spam is sent, I ban the registered address and hard-delete the thread. They come from different IP addresses, although a bunch of them come from 59.177.*.* (Geolocation says this is in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India.)

wolf	01-27-2006 01:19 PM

The Undertoad loves us and looks after us. We honor The Undertoad.

Clodfobble

01-27-2006 07:30 PM

Speaking of spam, Penny Arcade posted this email they supposedly received from someone today:

Quote:

Hey guys,

I interviewed for a guerilla marketing business in San Francisco that targeted web forums.

I was told that if I accepted the job, I was to have at LEAST 50 identities on as many forums as I could muster (they wanted 100 eventually), with a goal of 5 posts an hour. The posts had to be well thought out, and the idea was that I was to establish multiple identities with a history on the forums, so that when the timing was right a well written but subtly placed marketing post could be finessed in. And regular visitors would recognize the post as coming from a long time poster.

They had 12 people working there full time, and were hiring 10 more. You do the math. No wait, I'll do it for you: that's 880 posts a day (if minimum was met). However he said the better ones could do around 8 or 10 an hour. And they had different "verticals" so there was the sports guy, and the games guy, the hentai, excuse me I mean anime guy, etc.

But the most critical point was this: develop and integrate the identity. No random "HEY EB GAMES IS AWESOME BUY THIS" stuff.

Kinda spooky.

Didn't take the job. It was a fucking mill.

Like I wasn't suspicious enough before...

Undertoad

01-27-2006 07:38 PM

I can't wait to deny their IP blocks. Somebody better bust this shit wide open.

Hey, busterb told us about that power squid! You don't think...? :D

xoxoxoBruce

01-27-2006 08:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I can't wait to deny their IP blocks. Somebody better bust this shit wide open.

Hey, busterb told us about that power squid! You don't think...? :D

You mean he's in cahoots with the inventor that posted today. :eek:

Remember people, killing spam is your job too. That's what that little red and white triangle with the I in the middle is for. Down in the lower left corner of every post....Duh.

zippyt

01-27-2006 08:43 PM

ROCK ON UT !!!!
YOU DE-MAN !!!!
ROCKEM, SOCKEM , BLOCKEM !!!!!!

richlevy

01-27-2006 08:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Nice. If the coordinates get any better, there's always the predator drone option.http://www.cellar.org/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Note to federal officials. The preceding statement was intended as a joke and should not be taken to imply that I advocate using predator drones for any other purpose than killing US sanctioned evildoers and finding WMDs.

lumberjim

01-27-2006 11:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Speaking of spam, Penny Arcade posted this email they supposedly received from someone today:

Hey guys,

I interviewed for a guerilla marketing business in San Francisco that targeted web forums..... ~snip

Like I wasn't suspicious enough before...

sounds like a good job for bigV

elSicomoro

01-28-2006 12:23 AM

I love Spam, but it has to be fried.

Oh, wait...

marichiko

01-28-2006 12:34 AM

The Momster actually used to stick a bunch of cloves in spam and bake the stuff as if it was real food. Alas for her, neither my Dad nor I were fooled for a second. My Dad would whisper to me, "I'd rather eat c-rations". We would both go into uncontrollable fits of laughter until the Momster goose stepped out of the kitchen and commanded silence among the ranks. You folks who had two American parents don't know how lucky you were. At least I had one, even if I had to eat baked spam.

busterb

01-28-2006 09:40 AM

Quote:

Nice. If the coordinates get any better, there's always the predator drone option.

Maybe that's what they been using? If they use the link above to fire on me, some hill billy in TN. will loose the out house. :lol: In the FAQ, at top of page said I was near Alamo, TN.

SteveDallas

01-28-2006 10:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clodfobble quoting something else

I was told that if I accepted the job, I was to have at LEAST 50 identities on as many forums as I could muster (they wanted 100 eventually), with a goal of 5 posts an hour. The posts had to be well thought out, and the idea was that I was to establish multiple identities with a history on the forums, so that when the timing was right a well written but subtly placed marketing post could be finessed in. And regular visitors would recognize the post as coming from a long time poster.

Sort of like the time I posted my affiliate link to the free ipod business?? ;)

BigV	01-28-2006 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lumberjim

sounds like a good job for bigV

The same idea occurred to me.

I'll check it out and let you all know what I learn.

Elspode

01-29-2006 02:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

a bunch of them come from 59.177.*.* (Geolocation says this is in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India.)

Geez, the bastards are even stealing all our shitty tech jobs, too.

lumberjim

01-29-2006 11:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Bring me more questions, I am not afraid.

have you ever had a gay experience?

at what age did you move out of your parents house?

are you circumcised?

what is your favorite fabric?

at what age did you lose your cherry?

what was her name?

how many pairs of shoes do you currently own?

what is your hat size

Undertoad

01-29-2006 11:52 AM

A gay experience what?

7 days.

No, only parts of me are.

The fabric of the space-time continuum.

6, but I wasn't too sad about it... I just wanted to get to the chocolate sauce.

"Maraschino"

As you of all people should know, I never buy anything for transportation, I lease.

"A man should remove his hat upon entering a room... and leave it off for the rest of his life. Nothing looks stupider then a hat." -P. J. O'Rourke

BigV	01-30-2006 11:11 AM

:claps: Nicely done.

SteveDallas

01-30-2006 01:52 PM

Masterful.. absolutely masterful. I say we let him stay. :notworthy

BigV	01-30-2006 02:02 PM

:flips coin:*

...ok...

* two headed coin :wink:

Griff

02-05-2006 01:15 PM

Was I wrong to send a F.Off! PM to our lastest spawn of satan spamist?

Griff

02-05-2006 01:25 PM

Look at the way the dope sprays his graffiti all over the cellat not even putting his garbage in a sensible place. :rar:

BigV	02-05-2006 01:46 PM

Gross.

This is a tidy place, and all of us respect the "commons". I wonder how many/how fast alerts UT got on this latest barrage. I know I sent one apiece.

marichiko

02-05-2006 03:39 PM

Me. too. Hopefully, UT will be along soon to delete them. Jerk! (not you, UT - the spam man from hell)

Undertoad

02-05-2006 04:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Griff

Was I wrong to send a F.Off! PM to our lastest spawn of satan spamist?

Waste of your time and energy.

zippyt

02-05-2006 04:06 PM

BOOM BOOM ,
Out goes the Spam !!!!!

You da MAN UT !!!

wolf	02-06-2006 12:19 AM

Noticing one of these, and it's "sudden" disappearance is a great time to hit the tip jar ...

Elspode

02-06-2006 12:48 PM

Any notion as to why we're getting so much more of this sort of thing lately? Or was there already discussion, and I missed it? :dead3:

footfootfoot

02-06-2006 06:33 PM

OK now i'm seeing commies under the bed. what about the weird reciept thread?
How do we know that paprika isn't a shill name for maggiel, who's been wainting for just this moment to set us up the bomb. paprika posts some concern over a receipt. plausible thread drift into vcr jest only to spike the ball over the net with http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=208578&postcount=3 this post

I'm all freaked out man. it's freaky. I'm freaking.

make the text get back in the link. :eek:

BigV	02-06-2006 09:59 PM

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BigV	02-06-2006 10:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

and

Quote:

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

twenty years ago, I repaired some guy's wooden cross country skis. he snapped one in two. it was a phenomenal rebuild job, you couldn't see the join, took hours, cost more than the skis, they had sentimantal value.

He was a bee keeper, among other things, and paid me partly in honey. Buckets of honey. Along the way I also ended up with a gallon of buckwheat honey, really black and strong tasting.

I brewed a batch of mead, flavored with fresh ginger, (fermetation accelerant) and it was pretty good as memory serves.

A couple of friends of mine still talk about it, and friends of theirs who never even tasted it will stop me on the street and ask me if I'll make it again.

twenty years later.

a) like I remember what I did
b) it couldn't possibly have been that good
c) like I have the time.

Though I am making sake from scratch right now. this is # 3. First time out it was like a wonderful unsweet syrup, that left you with a brain crushing headache the next day. I'm hoping to resolve that aspect this time.

Ahhh. I think I understand now.

Good luck in the morning, footfootfoot.

footfootfoot

02-08-2006 11:33 AM

OK, here's that post.

Nahh, I just have a wacky sense of humor. I don't mix meds and booze.

I do really like the taste of beer though, but not the after effects, I usually quit after two or three, and a least a few hours before bed.

Although I'd never drive, I haven't been "drunk" in years. mostly just buzzed. now that I'm taking pain meds, I haven't been drinking. I'm pretty sure I was self medicating w/ beer now that I consdier it.

I have to think about that.

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