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Old 01-10-08, 09:11 AM
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Is spamming illegal sites in your signature is OK if your posts have some content?

I'm talking about luliy here. (S)he has started a few threads:

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=521888
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=521886

The problem is not so much the threads but the fact that her sig links to this site:


Which basically sells a "membership" to some P2P site.
Old 01-10-08, 10:01 AM
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It's definitely not. Report!!!
Old 01-10-08, 10:30 AM
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no it's not allowed and it's gone now.
Old 01-11-08, 10:36 AM
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Thanks. For some reason it was bugging me.

Looks like the sig is for a different piece of software now.
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That's what happens when you give a spammer the benefit of the doubt.

(S)he won't be spamming here anymore.
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(s)he's back:

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=522560

(Post also reported)
Old 01-14-08, 11:17 AM
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I think that's a different spammer with a similar technique.
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Another one:

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=526180

(eventually links to http://www.kasamba.com/experts/spiri...ychic-reading/ )
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Spammers are really trying here, aren't they?
Old 03-17-08, 01:23 PM
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This must've appeared in some "Internet Marketing 201" manual sold on eBay. So common now.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showpost.ph...5&postcount=18
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You're really on top of it, avid DVD Aficianado user The Bus!
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You're really on top of it, avid DVD Aficianado user The Bus!
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