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Old 08-05-2014, 09:28 AM   #23
Jazuela
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Re: Our first Spammer.

Okay here's the simple explanation since you've confirmed that yes, it did go right over your head:

This thread is about spammers. If you read through, you'll see a few different types of spam addressed.

One type of spam on the internet is -

necro'ing old threads with spam posts.

Another type is -

responding to necro'ed threads by human spam-bots who post single-line posts through a translator, such as:

Very interesting thread, much thank for you in contribute!


And so - Ghostcat and I complied and pretended to be those one-post bot-members who use babelfish to translate our foreign spam lines that exist on occasion to imbed a secret link in one of the words, such that if you were to click on it, it'd link you to a spam site.

It was funny to those of us who understand how these things work, and participated in perpetuating the joke.

You didn't get the joke.
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