Aaand... an update!

Subject: Aaand... an update!
Author: Techno-Dann
Posted on: 2008-08-17 21:34:00 UTC

For those of you who missed it, there was a bot spamming the board with the same post at a rate of several posts per minute for several hours last night. I posted the above post at about 2 in the morning, when it looked like the bot had stopped for a while. I've been exchanging E-mails with both the server.com folks and the hosts of the server doing the spamming, we'll see what happens with that. The posts around here will be more than a bit weird as all the (hundreds of) spam posts were deleted, leaving our inserted comments without context.

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*smacks spammer* READ THIS BEFORE CONTINUING! by Techno-Dann on 2008-08-17 09:43:00 UTC Reply

So, below this post is somewhere in the territory of 40 or 50 pages full of junk posts, all with one E-mail address, binservices@gmail.

There's just one problem with this - the posts themselves most likely did not come from binservices@gmail, whoever he happens to be. An IP trace goes back to a web hosting company, cirtexhosting.com. I've already sent them an E-mail documenting the incident.

Please, please, please, do not E-mail binservices@gmail, and especially not angrily. He's probably not responsible, and getting tons of nasty E-mail will not help anything. The responsible people violated their web host's TOS and will most likely get their website deleted.

Thank you kindly, we now return to your regularly scheduled posting.

Aaand... an update! by Techno-Dann on 2008-08-17 21:34:00 UTC Reply

For those of you who missed it, there was a bot spamming the board with the same post at a rate of several posts per minute for several hours last night. I posted the above post at about 2 in the morning, when it looked like the bot had stopped for a while. I've been exchanging E-mails with both the server.com folks and the hosts of the server doing the spamming, we'll see what happens with that. The posts around here will be more than a bit weird as all the (hundreds of) spam posts were deleted, leaving our inserted comments without context.