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Apr 28th, 2009 at 9:41am
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Back around 2000 or so, I set up a forum on my then-new web server for a fantasy fiction writers group I participated in.  The group dissolved a couple years later and the forum went mostly unused and was completely forgotten about.  Today, I decided to dig through my web logs to figure out why the server has been choking on PHP.exe, which is causing the slowness on our forum.  Guess what showed up?

http://www.twncommunications.net/BD/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl

Back then, forum spam was unheard of.  I didn't require an e-mail address or a CAPTCHA quiz on signup, and I didn't have any kind of spam protection in place.  I even allowed guests to make posts without signing up.  I took that forum offline in 2004, but must have accidentally restored it in October 2005 following the server crash.  Apparently, spammers found it sometime in the past six or eight months.

88,540 posts.  43,814 topics.  2,413 members.  Easily 99.9% of that is spam, as I'm guessing the last legitimate post was made in 2003.  One topic alone spans 954 pages.  Craziness!


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Reply #1 - Apr 28th, 2009 at 10:20am
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...and it continues.

As I continued digging through the web server log, I noticed some fairly disturbing referrers.  Every time you load an element (website, image, etc.), your browser sends a note to the destination web server telling it what page you came from.  As such, if you click a link to a web page, the site from which you clicked the link shows up as a referrer.  If someone links an image on our forum to another site, that site will show up in the log whenever the image is loaded.

Since many of the posts on this rogue forum are from spammers hawking some really nasty pr0n, guess what showed up in search engines?  And guess what happened when someone clicked one of the links provided by that search engine?

It ends up that 75% of my bandwidth has been sucked up by Internet pervs that got tricked by a spam bot.


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Reply #2 - Apr 28th, 2009 at 12:09pm
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It ends up that 75% of my bandwidth has been sucked up by Internet pervs that got tricked by a spam bot.


You can't prove it was me!
  
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Reply #3 - Apr 28th, 2009 at 3:54pm
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We also can't prove it wasn't you...so you'll be innocent in the eye of the public...just like OJ!

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Reply #4 - Nov 7th, 2009 at 3:12am
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Interview God

"Come in," God said to me, "so, you would like to interview Me?"

"If you have the time," I said. (wow power leveling)

He smiled through His beard and said: "My time is called eternity and is enough to do everything; what questions do you have in mind to ask me?"

"None that are new to you. What's the one thing that surprises you most about mankind?"

He answered: "That they get bored of being children, are in a rush to grow up, and then long to be children again. That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health. That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live neither for the present nor the future. That they live as if they will never die, and they die as if they never had never lived..."

His hands took mine and we were silent. After a long period, I said, "May I ask you another question?"

He replied with a smile. Wow gold

"As a Father, what would you ask your children to do for the new year?"

"To learn that they cannot make anyone love them. What they can do is to let themselves be loved.

To learn that it takes years to build trust, and a few seconds to destroy it.

To learn that what is most valuable is not what they have in their lives, but who they have in their lives.

To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others. There will be others better or worse than they are.

To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most, but is one who needs the least.

To learn that they should control their attitudes, otherwise their attitudes will control them.

To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in persons we love, and that it takes many years to heal them. Sro Gold

To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.

To learn that there are persons that love them dearly, but simply do not know how to show their feelings.

To learn that money can buy everything but happiness.

To learn that while at times they may be entitled to be upset, that does not give them the right to upset those around them.

To learn that great dreams do not require great wings, but a landing gear to achieve.

To learn that true friends are scarce, he/she who has found one has found a true treasure.

To learn that they are masters of what they keep to themselves and slaves of what they say.

To learn that they shall reap what they plant; if they plant gossip they will harvest intrigues, if they plant love they will harvest happiness. Sro Gold

To learn that true happiness is not to achieve their goals but to learn to be satisfied with what they already achieved.

To learn that happiness is a decision.  They decide to be happy with what they are and have, or die from envy and jealousy of what they lack.

To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see something totally different.

To learn that those who are honest with themselves without considering the consequences go far in life.

To learn that even though they may think they have nothing to give, when a friend cries with them, they find the strength to appease the pain.

To learn that by trying to hold on to love ones, they very quickly push them away; and by letting go of those they love, they will be side by side forever. Aion kina

To learn that even though the word "love" has many different meanings, it loses value when it is overstated.

To learn that they can never do something extraordinary for Me to love them; I simply do.

To learn that the shortest distance they could be from Me is the "the distance of a prayer."

  
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Reply #5 - Nov 7th, 2009 at 9:46am
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"Come in," God said to me, "so, you would like to interview Me?"

"If you have the time," I said.

He replied with a smile. Wow gold


ha!
  

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Reply #6 - Nov 7th, 2009 at 2:17pm
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Who knew god was a Japanese teen farming gold for dollars?!

IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!!!
  

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Reply #7 - Nov 7th, 2009 at 5:00pm
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I find it ironic our spambot friend picked this particular thread to bump...


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Reply #8 - Nov 8th, 2009 at 1:47am
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MediaMaster wrote on Nov 7th, 2009 at 9:46am:
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"Come in," God said to me, "so, you would like to interview Me?"

"If you have the time," I said.

He replied with a smile. Wow gold


ha!


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