Junkyard

[cajones]

Here is where the remains of the adbots that attack the Jeqo message board shall be displayed.

These are posters that post as guests, posting complete gibberish, amid a huge list of links with no purpose other than advertising.

Most of these are violators of the proboards terms of service, and all are violators of the rules of the Jeqo message boards.

[cajones]

 
IP Address
221.192.169.202
Never
 
IP Address
221.192.170.186
Never
 
IP Address
60.6.1.2
Never
 
IP Address
221.194.184.219
Never
 
IP Address
220.72.196.70
Never
 
IP Address
219.195.248.140
Never
 
IP Address
218.55.191.97
Never
 
IP Address
221.194.188.58
Never
 
IP Address
60.6.22.25
Never
 
IP Address
60.6.84.96
Never
 

* never refers to the time for which the ban is scheduled to be lifted.
** These are all bot IPs, but that doesn't mean they aren't being stolen by the bot(s) to mask its/their identity(ies).

[cajones]

Starport adbot banned
IP Address
121.27.140.78
Never

[cajones]

And we made it a year and a half, too...

58.17.145.18 posted the same spam on three boards. Banned. Disclosed. We need a privacy policy.

[Wolfstar]

Here lies jackass, who's... ass has been jacked?

[cajones]

Another one bites the dust...

58.242.216.178 spammed a rather business-like thread. Instead of doing the proffessional thing and deleting the post, I made a poorly formatted DELETED block.
Sir, we don't want your spam. Banned.

[Wolfstar]

Not just banned... PWN'D!

[cajones]

58.242.217.178 joins the junkyard.
(Anyone notice a similarity to the other spam sellers?)

[cajones]

124.64.114.223 put a little thought into the nonsensical garbled links (as much as can be said for a robot), this time electing to just attack a single preexisting topic with a series of posts that managed to deal a blow to IE7 and JFW5 before victory could be attained.

[glow=ornge,3,200][shadow=yellow,4,300]DELETED![/shadow][/glow]

[cajones]

Persistent little buggers. This time one robot used several guest IDs to attack a single topic. ... and jaws died twice.
Congratulations, 123.119.198.39, for thou art...

[glow=orange,3,200][shadow=yellow,4,300]DELETED![/shadow][/glow]

[cajones]

123.119.195.116 was kinda long in coming, but technical problems... mde... delays.
On the otherhand, we have another IP address I don't feel like copying. This one had a user account. Bot or not, it behaves like one, so it's getting posted as one.

Spam over
wowposter = very banned

[cajones]

65.49.14.11 took a creative route and posted something that probably came from a chainletter, but filled it with random links that didn't fit in context at all. I have no idea what that's supposed to accomplished, but eh,

[glow=orange,3,200]DELETED![/glow]

But hey, just so we have something to remember you by, I'll post the whole thing (links dead, of course). Enjoy.

I do a lot of management training each year for the Circle K Corporation, a national chain of convenience stores. Among the topics we address in our seminars
is the retention of quality employees-a real challenge to managers when you consider the pay scale in the service industry.
spam
During these discussions, I ask the participants, "What has caused you to stay long enough to become a manager?" Some time back a new manager took the question
and slowly, with her voice almost breaking, said, "It was a $19 baseball glove."
Cynthia told the group that she originally took a Circle K clerk
spam
job as an interim position while she looked for something better. On her second or third day behind the counter, she received a phone call from her nine-year-old
son, Jessie. He needed a baseball glove for Little League. She explained that as a single mother, money was very tight, and her first check would have
to go for paying bills.
spam
Perhaps she could buy his baseball glove with her second or third check.

When Cynthia arrived for work the next morning,
spam
Patricia, the store manager, asked her to come to the small room in back of the store that served as an office. Cynthia wondered if she had done something
wrong or left some part of her job incomplete from the day before. She was concerned and confused.

Patricia handed her a box. "I overheard you talking to your son yesterday," she said, "and I know that it is hard to explain things to kids. This is a baseball
glove for Jessie because he may not understand how important he is,
spam
even though you have to pay bills before you can buy gloves. You know we can't pay good people like you as much as we would like to; but we do care, and
I want you to know you are important to us."

The thoughtfulness,
spam
empathy and love of this convenience store manager demonstrates vividly that people remember more how much an employer cares than how much the employer
pays. An important lesson for the price of a Little League baseball glove.

[Wolfstar]

It was more creative than the previous Jack'd asses.

[cajones]

Another one bites the dust. 65.49.2.16 did... well... the exact same thing, just ripped off a different motivational chainletter.
Note (that should be obvious to everyone by now, but I figured with the thread I might as well say it) : These seem to come in waves that try similar strategies, then fiz out. I'd not be surprised if a couple more showed up between now and April, then they went quiet for a few months. But I guess we'll see.

Oh, and... umm... [glow=brown3,100]DELETED.[/glow]. <--behold my enthusiasm.

[cajones]

65.49.14.130, with three motivational chainletters at once!
Stop making me reconsider deleting or modifying your posts on the grounds that someone might find their not advertisement elements interesting and/or useful!
Fortunately for da rules, wrong boards, my digital assailants. (I expect this is one of those cringe-posts.).
Anyway...

[glow=blue,3,200]DELETED![/glow]

Oh, and I'm thinking of further limiting guest access to certain areas. I don't want to lock people out (with the comment system down thanks to the email problem). What to do...