The Underground’s Short Casts for 2008-09-02

by Tom Chandler on September 2, 2008 · 5 comments

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1 Kentucky Jim September 6, 2008 at 8:48 pm

Tom, Don’t know how to contact you directly, or I would. You’ve got somebody piggybacking. I found an e-mail linking to an old thread (2007). At first, I tried to read the thread, but could not find the comment that the e-mail said was there. Then, when I connected to the person’s direct link…Whoaaaa. Serious porn site, and when I clicked on that, I got pop-ups (in spite of my pop-up blocker) that I couldn’t get rid of. Think they’re gone now. Thought you might like to know.  (Quote)

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2 Tom Chandler September 8, 2008 at 7:15 am

Jim: I’m not sure what you mean by you found an email. Was it one of the Underground’s daily email updates?

Every day I spend a few minutes scrubbing all the comment spam and track spam from the Underground; sometimes they make it into the RSS feed before I get to them, and maybe that’s what you’re seeing.

The amount of comment and trackback spam that hits this blog is truly astounding; automated spam filters deal with most of it, but some still gets through.  (Quote)

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3 Kentucky Jim September 9, 2008 at 12:07 pm

I don’t know if it was a “daily” e-mail update, but it was an e-mail update. My post wasn’t very clear; sorry. I received an e-mail update, advising of a new comment on the thread last year about James Reams’ bamboo flyrods. The e-mail showed the comment that I think should have appeared in the thread, along with a link to the thread, and another that said to link to it to see all comments. When I linked to the first, I got the old thread, and there was no new comment that I could see. Went back to my e-mail, and clicked on the second link. Helllooo! So, since I was there, and feeling naughty (being a 62 year old bachelor and all), I decided to start one of the videos; all the (many) photos had those sorts of video arrows. I then got a pop up telling me that I need an Acive X control in order to run the video. That ain’t true; I run videos all the time. I tried to close it, but could not. Eventually, I just re-booted. That seems to have taken care of the problem. My guess is that it is an attempt to sell some pirated software.  (Quote)

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4 Tom Chandler September 9, 2008 at 1:21 pm

Yeah, it was comment spam. I probably killed the offending comment before you got to it, but the original link remained.

Damn spammers chew up enough time for an extra post each week.  (Quote)

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5 Kentucky Jim September 9, 2008 at 7:43 pm

Well, it was enough to get this old timer’s heart started. But no more. I’m sure I have some phish somewhere, and don’t have anti-phishing software.  (Quote)

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