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Via digg.com, I found this post by "Kathy" where she describes what she calls Silent Spam: People who just sign up with forums so that they have the link to their site in their forum profile. This appears to be relatively effective, since forums often have links to the list of users in prominent places.

Incidentally, we had such a case just a few hours later. Some weirdo has been trying to post about his true perpetual motion machine (no, really - you can't make these things up ...) before. He used the handy abbreviation "ddnpmfng" (and if he was successul elsewhere, that should be enough to find him - don't want to give him any more publicity here), which makes a nice filter criterion.

First, he tried to post a harmless (but content-free) comment, with his URL as a signature. When our spam filter rejected that, he tried to update his profile with that URL and a longish drivel about his machine. Fortunately, Geeklog now also filters profiles for spam.

So, while this was more of an amusing case, you may want to check your user list for suspicious entries on occasion ...

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"Silent" spam
Wow while going on the search, we found someone taking about us in an unfair manner.
You see we didnt mean to be intruding or spamming.
we just wanted to make people know about the truth.
Well since you dont get it dirk.
We wont ever try to log into your web site.

Sorry for the problems we have caused.

dominic and donatus nwaogu
DDNPMF Nigeria

there is no need of putting our web site name, if not you guys will call it another spam of ours
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 23 2006 @ 16:43 CET
Who is the Weirdo, they or you?
dirk seems like you just go around the web critizing people you dont really know about ( if you did, you should have known they were 2 and not 1 as you expressed) may be because you are simply jealous since you didnt have any constructive critism, that is if you built the machine they sent to you and it didnt work.

You see any one who tries to do any thing impossible is called a weirdo ( eg einstein, bohr and achimedes ) but the fact still comes around that the weirdo is the person critizing as they later appreciated their idea.

Do constructive critism.
How will it look like if their machine truely works and people built it and proved it and it is now used around the world and they get a Nobel prize in Physics for their work, people who sees what you just wrote will laugh at your stupidity and foolishness.

Anonymous
Cant disclose name before you send articles calling me a "Weirdo" or something worse.
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 23 2006 @ 18:27 CET
Who is the Weirdo, they or you?
i support you my friend.
Dirk just did a non-constructive critism based on the way the guys involve replied him saying they are sorry.
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 23 2006 @ 18:30 CET
Split personality, eh?

I think this is very funny - a spammer talking to himself (all of the above posts came from the same IP address).

I don't even have to reply to this - the spammer is proving quite convincingly what a weirdo he is. How convenient :-)

Authored by: Dirk on Monday, January 23 2006 @ 20:12 CET
Split personality, eh?
That was my friends taking to you dick head.
we were using the same IP address because we were using the same computer system.
Dick head.
Simple Logic.
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 24 2006 @ 15:52 CET
Split personality, eh?
Dont you get it we are 2 not 1 so stop referring us as "He".
Dont you read or are you blind.
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 24 2006 @ 15:57 CET
Split personality, eh?
Dont you get it we are 2 not 1 so stop referring us as "He".
Dont you read or are you blind.
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 24 2006 @ 16:00 CET
No Split personality
Got an email from your rivals "ddnpmfng" about what you said.
Big fool you dont quite.
Did you ask your self, if these guys were intending to do "impersonation" they wouldn't have used the same IP address or send the comment almost immediately.

You still call them "He" dont you read.
These guys you are picking on are just about to turn 16 year old on 20, May 2006 (kids huh?, but pretty intelligent, not because you dont have interesting and fascinating works like them, that warrants you to be jealous cause i see those green eyes of yours from your nasty words that make no sense) just like i am just that i'm a year older.

see what you have caused for your self. Kids insulting you.
You got no job i see, cause your so-called Geeklog and this stupid damn spam! (--not interesting, since you've got no external comment or story from people, leaving you writing all. The first ones where insulting you), what a shame.

Go get something doing.
Dick head (laughing)
You can check the IP address, there arent the same. using my own PC.

Ahmed Bayode Lawal (Now you've got my name, do you worst)
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 24 2006 @ 17:47 CET
No Split personality
stiil lawal.
The other guy complementing my first comment was Ridwan olawoore ( the inceptor of the former existing group " Total Energy Conservation Society in which they formerly belonged to before the closure of the group due to reasons you dont have to know dumb ) another friend of ours.
Lucky ridwan is not in the mode to insult you because he thinks you are too low for his standard including i think so.

(laughing) You got no friend to back you up.
Die being a fool.
A fool at 40 is a fool forever. Hope you arent 40 yet if not you will be a fool forever.

ddnpmnfng as you call them, Dominic and Donatus Nwaogu as i call them are my senior colleagues at the Noble Men Society of Physicists infact they are the moderators of the group.

fact proves that you are the weirdo and spammer. Since you are just trying to use their name "ddnpmfng" to make your web keep going and popular because of how popular you saw they are, that i believe.

You are jealous and that is why you dont want to give them more publicity, cause you know what they will be with it.

Others, like their ideas such as Sliphead Design, Content-Articles, even it appeared on the Nobel Gossip Bulletin Board as people talks about the good deeds they have done.

What is wrong with someone trying to put his idea on a message board and trying to update his profile with his URL as you provided. If you think it is wrong, why did you provide people with a column for their URL.
You know the strength of their URL huh?

It will definitely bring all your visitors to them in a pico-second. I love their books and people do just like their new visitors i know of said i.e. Horst Weider from Wisconsin, USA, Jesse Crum from Kansas, USA, Keith Davis from Michigan, USA, Paul Reynolds from Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Read it an you will be a changed man like i'm.
Love them because they are Free-Thinkers which you hate.

Hope you dont reply and die in shame dick head just like they called you.
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 24 2006 @ 18:03 CET
Isn't he cute?

Hey, you figured out how to post from another IP address. Congratulations.

As I wrote above - no need to comment on this, the spammer makes himself look more like a fool with every post. This is hilarious :-)

Authored by: Dirk on Tuesday, January 24 2006 @ 19:24 CET
Of course they have always been cute
This is Ridwan Olawoore, seems like you got nothing to say. You can go on the website of the sliphead design and find out for your self that Ahmed B. Lawal and DDNPMF Nigeria aka "ddnpmfng" has different identities with different articles, so what you mean by that. Still got no prove.
Better die in shame not replying.

Big Fool

Change your name from dirk to dick and Damn Spam! to Damn Jealousy! cause that's what you are and what you do.

Spam is sending copies of un-asked-for emails to many people you dont know and that isnt what they did "dick" (do you like your new name) and then silent spam is a spam which you send without the receiver knowing it is spam and that isnt what i see in your definition.

i guess the word "silent spam" was cooked up by jealous forum and message board creators that found out how their visitors never return to their web and goes for a member of their web site.

Wish you a cleaner mind towards successing kids like us.
You will be wondering what sort of kids are these with such disrespect, you cause it your self.
You can call us:

The League of Extraordinary GentleKids (laughing)
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 25 2006 @ 15:28 CET
Of course they have always been cute
you said that they wanted to put their URL on their profile and that is how they spammed you, why is your own URL on your own profile? dummy.

Then if they are guilty of your so-called silent spamming ,you too are guilty of that same silent spamming

-ridwan
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 25 2006 @ 15:36 CET
truely sorry. No more Fight, we beg you
Seems like Spamming has become something more hated by the World than Fraud that is Scamming.
Well we have also been acussed of Spamming the Geeklog.net as well.
Seems like we were guilty according to dirk for trying to put our URL.
With great intent, we wanted the URL to make people understand how our “perpetual motion machine” (of cause you will say, it cant work of course) works.
Cause without the URL you can see any schmatics and making the idea useless (that is difficult to understand).

We agree we are at fault, since the web is his.

The IP address " little Scraps" was something that shouldnt have to happen.

with clean hearts, that was us and our friends using the same computer system in a Cyber cafe (that IP address wasnt ours, but for a Public Internet Browsing Center named "Midas").

Sorry as we said early for all the problems we have caused you and all the insults we have said and that of our friends.

We hope you forgive us and take us like one of the spammers who spammed your web site and are now sorry.

Earlier, we didnt take putting our URLs on pepole's web site as something really bad. And that is One lesson we learnt from "Damn Spam!" that is "not to go any where on any ones web to put our URL (it is really bad)"

thanks
Dominic and Donatus Nwaogu
DDNPMF Nigeria.

Have the best time of your life

Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 28 2006 @ 15:05 CET
"Silent" spam
lol
it's us again
dominic and donatus nwaogu aka ddnpmfng
we just wanted to paint this post black by dropping that our web site now has the picture of the apparatus used to test out the 2 successful simple principles or cycles of our perpetual motion design (in which you call a longish drivel)
wish us a happy 16th birthday
we just turned 16 today.
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 20 2006 @ 18:39 CEST

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