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Not sure it's a bot - I think it's about three or four individuals at a spam farm. When we had bot attacks last year, they posted a whole load faster than these guys are managing: 100 messages+ per minute per user.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They have flooded multiple forums, "Get-Togethers", "Article writing", "Spam and Abuse watch" and the non-English ones.
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I know - and I have the RSI to prove it - but if you look, they are each posting around 20 messages before they move on - and the interval between posts is a "human" one, not "bot speed".
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I remember last year. 
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If it were up to me, I'd limit no. accounts that can be created in a short period of time from a single mac address. Also, some "cooldown" functionality can be implemented to post threads before some reputation threshold.
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MAC addresses aren't unique, are easily spoofed, and aren't transferred to the internet - they stop at the router when the LAN / WiFi IP address is assigned.
IP addresses don't help either, since they are the point of contact with the internet rather than a specific computer. And easy to "recycle" - just reboot the router - unless they are static addresses, which most aren't.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Arghh. 
On the other hand, it is nice to see everyone actively trying to report spam events.
"We" make it a habitable place.
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OriginalGriff wrote: And easy to "recycle" - just reboot the router
Recycling a router takes time - up to a couple of minutes, including connection to the ISP, so forcing them to do that would also help cut down the traffic.
Note also that the ISP's DHCP server is likely to give the router the same IP address, unless the reservation expires at the same time as the router is rebooted.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The mac address idea is certainly a good one although I imagine that they are using some sort of vpn in which case I am not sure that would catch them.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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More than 10 posts in a single forum should be a nice indication and a hard limit.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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OriginalGriff wrote: What gets me is that they are so incompetent
0. Competent
1. Intelligent
2. Spammer
Only two of those words can ever be used together in a sentence.
Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept it, is to decide which is the odd one out.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If you say it backward, will you disappear back to your own dimension?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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69. Outstanding verse, by all accounts (4)
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VERY?
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Owed (sounds like ode)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Yup 
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Is anyone here actually doing any AR/VR dev work?
Or even using one as a customer?
TTFN - Kent
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I am at Nvidia's GTC (a trade conference) right now and there are lots of people doing it here.
It might be one of those solutions in search of a problem though. That's often the case when the cost of entry is so high with something. When that comes down and more applications become available that utilize it I suspect it (VR/AR) might explode. According to lots of SF novels it will.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: It might be one of those solutions in search of a problem though.
That's where I keep getting hung up on it. Every possible solution (excluding gaming) seems to be such a niche market. I'm assuming I'm missing something[1]. Happens frequently.
[1] Slowly dragging myself through "History of the Future[^]" and just not getting it.
TTFN - Kent
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It is expected to be used extensively in controlling fusion reactors... 
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Rick York wrote: ...I suspect it (VR/AR) might explode. According to lots of SF novels it will.
I never understood why the consoles on the bridge in Star Trek explode when the ship takes some hits. Do they store their explosives in them or what? Anyway, why should I use VR devices that could explode in my face? 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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My wife has a cousin who's son...
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did he also do the company website? 
TTFN - Kent
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