When I glanced at some of the postings they seemed strangely familiar. In fact, they seem to mostly be rec.bicycles.tech postings that have been copied then disguised by random transposition of letters in keywords.
Anybody got any idea whazzup with this?
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When I glanced at some of the postings they seemed strangely familiar. In fact, they seem to mostly be rec.bicycles.tech postings that have been copied then disguised by random transposition of letters in keywords.
Anybody got any idea whazzup with this?
Sheldon "Is Jobst Really 'Tsunami'?" Brown
I have no idea, "angelx". 🙂
-- Benjamin Lewis
Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly
When I glanced at some of the postings they seemed strangely familiar. In fact, they seem to mostly be rec.bicycles.tech postings that have been copied then disguised by random transposition of letters in keywords.
Anybody got any idea whazzup with this?
Sheldon "Is Jobst Really 'Tsunami'?" Brown
I have no idea, "angelx". 🙂
Heh. I'm "fat free pork"...
-- Benjamin Lewis
Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly
When I glanced at some of the postings they seemed strangely familiar. In fact, they seem to mostly be rec.bicycles.tech postings that have been copied then disguised by random transposition of letters in keywords.
Anybody got any idea whazzup with this?
It sure *looks* like someone trying to jump-start their web forums through massive copyright infringement. I imagine if you give it enough time to be indexed by Google, it will appear to be a large, successful set of bike forums.
Then what? Ads? Spam to those who are fooled into signing up?
When I glanced at some of the postings they seemed strangely familiar. In fact, they seem to mostly be rec.bicycles.tech postings that have been copied then disguised by random transposition of letters in keywords.
When I glanced at some of the postings they seemed strangely familiar. In fact, they seem to mostly be rec.bicycles.tech postings that have been copied then disguised by random transposition of letters in keywords.
Anybody got any idea whazzup with this?
Sheldon "Is Jobst Really 'Tsunami'?" Brown
I have no idea, "angelx". 🙂
Cool. I salhl hecnefotrh be knwon as "1888."
And I shall call myself "skelhorne"
Who *are* these douchebags? -- Live simply so that others may simply live
Benjamin Lewis <[email hidden]> wrote in news:[email hidden]:
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Sheldon Brown wrote:
> I received an invitation to join a "new forum" called > http://www.biketalks.com/ > > When I glanced at some of the postings they seemed strangely > familiar. In fact, they seem to mostly be rec.bicycles.tech postings > that have been copied then disguised by random transposition of > letters in keywords. > > Anybody got any idea whazzup with this? > > Sheldon "Is Jobst Really 'Tsunami'?" Brown
When I glanced at some of the postings they seemed strangely familiar. In fact, they seem to mostly be rec.bicycles.tech postings that have been copied then disguised by random transposition of letters in keywords.
That letter replacement and it's lack of formatting for replies makes it *really* hard to read. Here's a good example: "Now load both wehels radially, i.e. Therefore by putin each one on a bike." And there's no indication which part of each post is quoted, and which part is the reply.
In article <[email hidden]>, Neil Brooks ([email hidden]) wrote:
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Who *are* these douchebags?
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They are [email hidden], apparently
More info from whois...
Registrant: Michael Mokotov Mavo Gilat 7 TA, Israel 69359 Israel
Registered through: GoDaddy.com (http://www.godaddy.com) Domain Name: BIKETALKS.COM Created on: 03-Nov-05 Expires on: 03-Nov-07 Last Updated on: 04-Nov-05
Administrative Contact: Mokotov, Michael [email hidden] Mavo Gilat 7 TA, Israel 69359 Israel 97236481802 Technical Contact: Mokotov, Michael [email hidden] Mavo Gilat 7 TA, Israel 69359 Israel 97236481802
Domain servers in listed order: NS1.HDMX.NET NS2.HDMX.NET
When I glanced at some of the postings they seemed strangely familiar. In fact, they seem to mostly be rec.bicycles.tech postings that have been copied then disguised by random transposition of letters in keywords.
That letter replacement and it's lack of formatting for replies makes it *really* hard to read. Here's a good example: "Now load both wehels radially, i.e. Therefore by putin each one on a bike." And there's no indication which part of each post is quoted, and which part is the reply.
Can that compete with the real thing? I hope not.
-- Dave "EdDx" dvt at psu dot edu
Ahh, I finally figured out Datakoll's method. If you take his posts and put them through the same algorythm you come out with perfect grammer!!!
(BTW, Isay this with love in my heart as I happen to regard Datakoll's postings as some of the most interesting here, especially since we chased off Dear Karl)
dvt" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Dave Larrington said:
In article <[email hidden]>, Neil Brooks ([email hidden]) wrote:
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
Who *are* these douchebags?
Quoted message said:
They are [email hidden], apparently
More info from whois...
Registrant: Michael Mokotov Mavo Gilat 7 TA, Israel 69359 Israel
Registered through: GoDaddy.com (http://www.godaddy.com) Domain Name: BIKETALKS.COM Created on: 03-Nov-05 Expires on: 03-Nov-07 Last Updated on: 04-Nov-05
Administrative Contact: Mokotov, Michael [email hidden] Mavo Gilat 7 TA, Israel 69359 Israel 97236481802 Technical Contact: Mokotov, Michael [email hidden] Mavo Gilat 7 TA, Israel 69359 Israel 97236481802
Domain servers in listed order: NS1.HDMX.NET NS2.HDMX.NET
Registry Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Another little sniff shows the hoster to HDMX.COM Perhaps they would do something if we all pettitioned them to stop?
Tracert www.biketalks.com found the last router as: server4you-gw.stl1.us.inetbone.net
It sure *looks* like someone trying to jump-start their web forums through massive copyright infringement.
Copyright?
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I imagine if you give it enough time to be indexed by Google, it will appear to be a large, successful set of bike forums.
Then what? Ads? Spam to those who are fooled into signing up?
Probably the former. There are easier ways to get spam lists.
--
David L. Johnson
__o | "Business!" cried the Ghost. "Mankind was my business. The _`\(,_ | common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, (_)/ (_) | and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!" --Dickens, "A Christmas Carol"
When I glanced at some of the postings they seemed strangely familiar. In fact, they seem to mostly be rec.bicycles.tech postings that have been copied then disguised by random transposition of letters in keywords.
Anybody got any idea whazzup with this?
All I got was this:
This is the placeholder for domain biketalks.com. If you see this page after uploading site content you probably have not replaced the index.html file.
When I glanced at some of the postings they seemed strangely familiar. In fact, they seem to mostly be rec.bicycles.tech postings that have been copied then disguised by random transposition of letters in keywords.
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
Anybody got any idea whazzup with this?
Quoted message said:
All I got was this:
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This is the placeholder for domain biketalks.com. If you see this page after uploading site content you probably have not replaced the index.html file.
google scholar, world catalog et al., and Nihm do this as does word reference as with slippppppppppppppppppppppppppperry tires and journeys thru SA and Paris one gains perspective
When I glanced at some of the postings they seemed strangely familiar. In fact, they seem to mostly be rec.bicycles.tech postings that have been copied then disguised by random transposition of letters in keywords.
Anybody got any idea whazzup with this?
It sure *looks* like someone trying to jump-start their web forums through massive copyright infringement. I imagine if you give it enough time to be indexed by Google, it will appear to be a large, successful set of bike forums.
Just like two or three other bike forums I've found filled with rbt posts and numerous forums populated with other newsgroups. They're only acknowledged about half the time.
So, Shrug. Nothing new, and nothing really to be done about them either.
