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0 Subject: Daily Blurb - August 3, 2011

Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 11:54

Quote of the day
"I had no idea who [Mike Adams] was. No disrespect to him, but he's not in our league and he just got traded over here.." -- Detroit outfielder Brennan Boesch, who homered off of Adams in the 8th inning to lead the Tigers to a 6-5 win

Daily blurb
Some days it’s no fun to run a web site.

Since late last night, there have been hundreds of attempts by automated bots to post spam at the RotoGuru Message forum. Much of the obvious spam was blocked, but a great deal of nuisance posts did get through – and those attempt continue.

As such, I’ve ramped up my spam blocking software to be much more aggressive today. In the past two hours, I’ve successfully blocked 40 such posts – although I also managed to snag a few legitimate posts in the process. If you try to post something today and encounter an unusual problem, just send me an email and I can adjust the software to compensate. Hopefully, either the attempts will dissipate (as they often do), or else my spam sniffing software will becoming more discerning with practice.

Unfortunately, being in spam-fighting mode all morning, I’ve had no time to draft (or even think about) an on-topic blurb today. However, while I continue to throttle the “evil doers”, don’t forget to set your GuruGolf lineup for the Reno-Tahoe Open. Yes, I know it’s not the marquis PGA tournament this week, but it does offer a cut, and that’s the way I’ve chosen GuruGolf tournaments for many years.

1holt
      ID: 40711121
      Sat, Aug 06, 2011, 05:34
Any idea what the purpose of the spamming is? I don't see any way to profit from them. They wre just random nonsense comments with fake email addresses. Just to be annoying? Or testing a spam bot?
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