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Grump Number One - Spammers

You knew that was coming. There are some excellent resources on how to deal with spam. Of the many counter-spam tactics, we use a few here:



Grump Number Two - Idiot Script Kiddies

Certainly some (probably most) of the the malicious packets flying around the Internet are the result of viruses, trojans, and misconfigured machines. However, some of this activity...isn't. That's all I'll say about that.



Grump Number Three - Link Pimping

This has been going on for several years, most notably in the mainstream television news media. In the U.S. this has taken a very disturbing turn in the aftermath of recent tragedies such as the Asian Tsunami and the hurricanes in the southeastern states.

Very simply, Link Pimping is when a website requests that you go their website to get to another website. This serves absolutely no purpose other than to create traffic for the first website. I suppose there is also some sanctimony and pretentious piety involved for some people. I don't have a problem with people putting target-of-opportunity links on their site but using mainstream media to redirect people through their site first is nothing short of disgusting.



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