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Tony R
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Posted: September 16 2011 at 10:40 |
Deathrabbit wrote:
Erm, it's possible they just went thru the same gateway isn't it? I mean your prolly rite, my money is on spammer too, but just know that thru the joy of things like NAT traversal, people can appear to be posting from the same location when they aren't.
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The exact same IP address?
I've got an Uncle in the Nigerian Treasury who needs to move $200 Million ASAP. Just send me your bank details and you can have 10% facilitation fee.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: September 16 2011 at 11:25 |
Should have known it was spam. No self respecting music lover would sit by and let one of their kids play with and destroy their collection. "Oh look, little Mikey's breaking all the CDs, how cute."
Edited by Slartibartfast - September 16 2011 at 11:26
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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TheGazzardian
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Posted: September 16 2011 at 12:24 |
Spammers are getting smart
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The Truth
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Posted: September 16 2011 at 13:18 |
The smart are getting spammer!
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TheGazzardian
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Posted: September 16 2011 at 13:39 |
And yet also dumb ... if that box set is legit, they can just post it in one of the Prog News sections.
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Failcore
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Posted: September 16 2011 at 13:56 |
Tony R wrote:
Deathrabbit wrote:
Erm, it's possible they just went thru the same gateway isn't it? I mean your prolly rite, my money is on spammer too, but just know that thru the joy of things like NAT traversal, people can appear to be posting from the same location when they aren't.
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The exact same IP address?
I've got an Uncle in the Nigerian Treasury who needs to move $200 Million ASAP. Just send me your bank details and you can have 10% facilitation fee.
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Actually, yes. Like I said, I agree this is a spammer, but for instance, if you posted from any of the dorms on campus at my Uni, it would look like ti came from the same ip address. It's the concept of a WAN ip, You have one address that you show the public net, instead of it seeing each individual PCs ip address. It's both for security and to conserve address space. It's only gonna get more convoluted since IPv4 is out of address space and ppl are dragging tail about converting to 6, so whole giant sections of the internet will prolly be goign thru NAT traversal before too long. You may know all this already, I dunno, but I managed a site for a while and accidentally banned half the campus because of one guy.
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Tony R
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Posted: September 16 2011 at 14:05 |
I know how it works and we are mindful of campus networks, libraries etc.
However one only has to read the two posts to know.
Truth is I suspected the motives of the thread from the outset. You'd just go to Amazon...
Edited by Tony R - September 16 2011 at 14:06
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Catcher10
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Posted: September 16 2011 at 14:12 |
^ You should just delete the entire thread, its meaningless anyway at this point. We all were trying to help in some way.
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Tony R
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Posted: September 16 2011 at 14:19 |
Nah.
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