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Reinard, we have a troll, sortof
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:18 pm
by FarmerHal
Well he's completely OT with his political agenda and such.
<shrugs>
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:48 pm
by reinhard
It's not a human being (or even a live troll). It's a spambot.
I've seen this one before. It's unusual (and hard to filter out) because it's political rather than pharmaceutical or pornographic. I don't know if that's just a cover (all roads lead to viagra and porn) or if it's genuine propaganda (which would be even more disturbing). I'll delete these posts and accounts pronto and do some homework, because now it's piqued my curiosity. If I find out anything I'll post here.
Reinhard
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 3:30 pm
by FarmerHal
Ahh. I didn't know about spam bots.
Once some'one' or some'thing' aquired my email address and was sending really really hateful emails about Turkey (the country). It was awful. People started sending ME hatemail. I had to turn off the address. Wonder if it is a similar thing?
Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:16 pm
by reinhard
I did a search on the username that posted ("OSfllwrb") this because it was such an oddball name and it had been registered several times. Google gives over 106,000 hits. That's one prolific spambot!
Now if I could only figure out what it was trying to convince me to do or think... it's either so deep and subtle that it exerts its desired influence without the conscious mind discerning it, or it's just inept (except in terms of proliferation).
Reinhard