BBC R4 'The Favourite' Irish pub (spam thread)

Subject: RE: BBC R4 'The Favourite' Irish pub
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 10:30 AM

Due to an attack on this thread by spammers, I am closing it and shifting the discussion to THIS THREAD. Thanks for the cooperation.

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I moved the non-spam related messages into the new thread.

Subject: RE: BBC R4 'The Favourite' Irish pub
From: Gervase
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 06:21 AM

I'm intrigued by the spam messages above (before they're removed by a mod) - do some poor deluded souls actually spend their days trolling through message boards and then going through the rigmarole of typing in the HTML? A most curious occupation - particularly since nearly every board I know has a policy of deleting such rubbish as soon as it appears.
Or is it done automatically by some robot software?

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Hi, Gervase. There are just a few threads that get hit heavily - this one has had over twenty Spam messages, posted from 31 August through 8 September. Mick took on the tedious task of moving all the legitimate messages to a new thread, one at a time. That should take care of it. I did the same several days ago with another thread, and our trick seemed to work. The Spam-attracting thread was closed, and the new thread with with old messages hasn't been hit. Thanks to Mick for cleaning up this one.
-Joe Offer-