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Anoree · 01-09-2011, 09:34 PM

I doubt that most of the spammers are even humans. I suspect that they're just little programs in BotNetworks, where a group of captured computers are controlled from elsewhere and do tasks like mailing spam, attack internet servers - or infiltrate forums to post spam - all automatically.
The owners of the computers used might only experience some loss of computing or surfing speed, if even that.

I've seen a kind of evolution in some of the spam posts: Early ones were just nonsense, some random words grouped together as "sentences." Then there were posts that apparently were copied posts from other forums. Now I see posts that include references to our forum - a new quality.

01-09-2011, 09:34 PM	#15
Anoree Moderator Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Germany Posts: 2,015	I doubt that most of the spammers are even humans. I suspect that they're just little programs in BotNetworks, where a group of captured computers are controlled from elsewhere and do tasks like mailing spam, attack internet servers - or infiltrate forums to post spam - all automatically. The owners of the computers used might only experience some loss of computing or surfing speed, if even that. I've seen a kind of evolution in some of the spam posts: Early ones were just nonsense, some random words grouped together as "sentences." Then there were posts that apparently were copied posts from other forums. Now I see posts that include references to our forum - a new quality.