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[Chuck H]

That is pretty much inevitable. Or another supposedly different new user will reply with the spam payload.

I'd considered that this could be spam. The IP is coming out of Ukraine too, BUT...

No links, it seems there's a recognition of the content and then the innocence of the harmonica reference. So I decided to be friendly for the moment. How crappy would it be to get profiled. Being an X gen cracker I have almost no experience with that but I know people that do. I try to be nice until it's time not to. I can do that because I have the power to erase M(e)Fers that cross my path

[g1]

No links, it seems there's a recognition of the content and then the innocence of the harmonica reference.

Sorry for being so pessimistic, but leaving that post there was me being nice.
I've noticed a trend where a new user posting a spam link (sometimes invisible) will be responding months later to some other new user who has set up some kind of 'placeholder'. I'm guessing this post was such a placeholder, but I'll be happy to find out the user posts in context elsewhere.

[Chuck H]

Sorry for being so pessimistic, but leaving that post there was me being nice.
I've noticed a trend where a new user posting a spam link (sometimes invisible) will be responding months later to some other new user who has set up some kind of 'placeholder'. I'm guessing this post was such a placeholder, but I'll be happy to find out the user posts in context elsewhere.

Well this person turned out to be a spammer after all. I just happen to be having an "insomnia event" and was on the same thread when they posted up linky spam and unrelated content. I banned them while they were still on the thread. That's a first. What are the odds?

I don't expect this will keep me from being optimistic and offering trust in the future but I will say that the disappointment is familiar.

[pdf64]

Well this person turned out to be a spammer ... I banned them while they were still on the thread..

At least that had to be a bit gratifying?
Though perhaps we should be sympathetic to Ukrainian spammers for the moment

[nosaj]

At least that had to be a bit gratifying?
Though perhaps we should be sympathetic to Ukrainian spammers for the moment

NO. I think if they need to make some money they should use that against the enemy an not bite the hand that feeds.

nosaj

[Helmholtz]

Not everybody with a ukrainian IP needs to be a native Ukrainian.

[The Dude]

^^^^^ Yes, that. I've read that most Russian spam comes from Ukraine IP's.