Random House Spam?
Anyone know why someone inside Random House (IP address 170.171.250.51) would want to keep posting spam to my comments?
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Anyone know why someone inside Random House (IP address 170.171.250.51) would want to keep posting spam to my comments?
March 4th, 2006 at 1:59 am
Maybe they are not ‘inside’ Random House! Could be someone who has been able to get a ‘virus’ onto the system that gives them access. Could be someone who has spoofed the IP. There are many ways to make it look like it was that IP. Who have you upset lately?
March 4th, 2006 at 2:08 am
To prove my point - the last post that I made shows an IP address of 210.54.104.146. This post would show an IP address of 154.35.1.8, yet I have not left my desk, nor have I turned my computer off. In fact I even posted from the same browser window. No it wasn’t me that spammed you. Don’t assume it is really came from Random House.
March 4th, 2006 at 10:31 am
Actually, it showed a different IP than your 154.x.x.x string, but still it was different from the 210.x.x.x of your previous post, so I’ll still grant the point. My suspicion of Random House, BTW, was quickly diverted to Sony/BMG, as they own RH and the spam was plugging music.
Got hit with a lot of porn trackbacks recently, as well. It highlighted the fact that trackbacks are harder to moderate here than comments, so it’s back to the drawing board for them. Most of the porn trackbacks were coming in from asia, though pointing to sites owned, ostensibly, by someone in the US.
I’ve probably upset a lot of people lately. I’m that way. I tend to value truth over tact, so I am sometimes too blunt for my own good.
March 8th, 2006 at 9:24 am
That is a good way to be - Valuing truth! I have found that it is possible to deliver with tact, but more difficult to hear with tact.
March 15th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
154.35.1.8 is a Tor router on the onion router network.