Phil Deakins

You're probably right. I wasn't rude though And it does appear to be something that a number of people dislike - hence the newer thread.

My birthday is in December - not today - but thanks to those who wished me happy birthday anyway

Perrie Juran wrote: It just occurred to me if I save all the addresses and use the reply all the spammers would wind up spamming the spammers after they harvest the addresses. Except for one teeny weeny detail... The From field is usually spoofed - not the actual sender's email address. I occasionally get a stack of failed deliveries - "not known at this address", etc. - because my email addresses have been used to send mass spam. The From field can be anything the spammer wants to use, so the spammers wouldn't end up spamming the spammers. It would be innocent email addresses that get it all.

My birthday is on the 13th. A long long time ago, when I was at grammar school (in the UK we call them grammar schools), I was in the 'A' form - 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a (that's the 1st to the 4th year). Half way though the 4th year, when my birthday had been on Friday the 13th, I was put down to 4b. That's the only time when my birthday falling on Friday 13th saw something particularly negative in the year. Not very exciting, I know, but it's the best I've got.

Kelli May wrote: "Do you want to eat, Kelli?" "Do you want to eat Kelli?" Punctuation makes a difference! Fixed it for you

Coby Foden wrote: Generally I skip the posts where the user does not care even about the simplest rules in writing: no capital letters to start a sentence, incomprehensible shorternings (even comprehensible ones like "h r u?" types..), no paragraphs. It gives an impression that the person is sloppy, or tries to be "cool and relaxed", perhaps? Naturally we all tend to make typos, spelling errors, grammatical erros. Those are understandable and tolerable. I admit to doing that but it's not intentional. I press shift-character every time but far too often my timing is wrong and I get a lower case character instead of what was intended (I think I release Shift too soon). I don't tend to correct those errors - that's my confession. I do correct them when it's "I" and comes out as "i". It's rare to see one of my posts that hasn't been edited, and it's almost always for corrections. In fact, I feel quite pleased with myself if I get a post up that doesn't have the "[Edited] mark. I tend to read my posts through in the Preview tab - a different view often makes it easier to spot errors - but I still miss some. Another of mine is "tho" instead of "though". I usually use "tho" but, since the original discussion resulted in this thread, I'll stop doing that - especially since I pointed out (in the other thread) that non-native english speakers may well find it impossible to understand the text-type abreviations. Now let's see if I can post this without having to edit it for errors ETA: I had to edit it, dammit. I missed a word out - the one I've bolded. ETA: <sigh> two corrections now. I'll stop checking after this.

Madelaine McMasters wrote: I remember that one too - brilliant!

PeterCanessa Oh wrote: :-) "I'm typing all the right letters ... not necessarily in the right order." to paraphrase a comedy classic. That was a classic, and I've always had it in mind when describing my dyslexic typing

Just an update: I contacted the site to let them know what is happening. It seems they do want to know because they emailed me to ask who the person is. I couldn't tell them, of course, but I did give them the URL for this thread, plus enough information to discover who it is - the affilate ID is probably part of the url when you reach the site's registration page, and I copied the actual message with it's link, so they can follow the link, register, and then check their log to see who the affiliate is. The url is probably enough though. With a bit of luck, that person may receive absolutely nothing for his efforts, and may receive nothing even for genuine referrals.

I often describe myself as a dyslexic typist - so often I type all the right letters but in the wrong order. I'm a decent speller but my fingers seem to have a mind of their own. So that's me - a "dyslexic typist".

Dilbert Dilweg wrote: Yep Looks like the " Second Life " Spam object lit up a few lightbulbs and a few jumping on the bandwagon lol It's not really surprising. It's an idea that wouldn't cross most people's minds but it's easy to do when the method is shown, as was done in the other threads.

Polenth Yue wrote: I thought the avatar names were the cherry, as they're so obviously names created for spamming. There wasn't even an attempt to sound genuine. Oooh! That reminded me of something from years ago. It's nothing to do with this spam but it's about spam, and quite interesting. Back when I was an SEO, I had an seo forum which was quite well used. One day, someone signed up and posted about what he thought might be a scam, and asked what to do about it. What was happening was this... Every website needs a host so that it can be on the Web. Hosts charge money, of course, and website owners are their customers. "Cloaking", when related to search engines, is the practise of delivering different pages to search engine spiders than are delivered to people. Search engine spiders crawl the web all the time. They have to do that to populate and maintain their indexes. With cloaking, when a known search engine spider requests a page, it is sent a different page to the one that is sent to non-spiders. It's a method of tailoring pages for better rankings without spoiling the pages for people. Lastly, links to a website improve search rankings. So there was a host that cheated its customers by using the cloaking method. When a search engine spider requested a page from one of the customer sites, the host's system returned the page but with a number of links to the host's own sites added. People never saw the links, so the customers didn't know it was happening. There is a way of pretending to be a search engine spider and fool the host's server, so I could see it all. I phoned one of the owners of one of the sites being cheated, and ascertained that they knew nothing about it. I got in touch with Google and the host's websites were removed from the index, but not those of the host's customers. An excellent result. Your comment reminded me of it because of the words that the host used in the added links - "more links for us" was one that I remember. The words made it blatantly obvious what they were, just like the av names in this latest spam.

That's right. I've received from 2 objects, one of which is high above a Linden Home. I went to the other one and ARed it with a pic. While I was doing the AR someone appeared right by me, and disappeared quickly. His name wasn't like the "sales" names, so it might have been the guy himself. At 3000m in an otherwise empty sky, you don't often get people just passing by

There's now another set of spam objects sending IMs. It doesn't pretend to be Second Life, but the objects are called "NEW", they are owned by multiple avatars, they are located in multiple sims, and they advertise a male skin, complete with the slurl where to get it from. The message includes, If you'd like to stop receiving these notification, IM <av name> with "unsubscribe". Cheeky bugger!

I'd be very interrested to see, Jennifer. And don't worry about clothes. I grew out of pixel sex some years ago, so clothes on is perfect for me.

Marigold Devin wrote: It's probably the public humiliation aspect of it that got my back up. Are you an English teacher? Did someone appoint you to be the English grade master of these forums? Is this your particular fantasy in Second Life? There was no public humiliation. There might have been if I'd mentioned something of which she wasn't aware, but I didn't. She does it intentionally. No, I'm not and english teacher, and no, nobody appointed me to be one in this forum. I'm merely a forum user and Jeanne adds some unnecessary difficulty in reading her posts - for everyone - which is silly. For non-native english speakers, she may even make her posts impossible to understand. As a forum user, I pointed out to her that her posts are made more difficult to read because she intentionally writes words wrongly - and you don't need to be an english teacher to know that Anyway, Phil, I don't wish to carry on feeling intolerant towards you and your intolerance of people who do not write correct English, so I am moving along now. I don't mind you feeling intolerant towards me, Marigold. The more you keep saying I was rude when I wasn't, the more likely it is that I will reciprocate the feeling Oh. One thing though. I'm not intolerant towards Jeanne the person because she writes the way she does, but I am a bit intolerant of that silly and unnecessary way of writing in forum posts. Keep it for texting, when a full keyboard isn't available, and all will be well.

aaw, thank you :smileyhappy:

It's rude to point out a fault? Since when? Not in my book. Jeanne's post indicates that she didn't find it rude either. She found it was some things, but not rude. Perhaps it was the way I worded it that got her back up - and yours - but what I said was correct.

Qie Niangao wrote: Also, while I don't recommend waiting for the great Enlightenment, I do recommend first assessing script time and memory usage before buying any piece of furniture. There are some engines out there that are just absurdly inefficient, and some furniture makers who can turn even efficient engines into nightmares of inefficiency. A recent change is the ability for buyers to see that before making a purchase. It would be a good transition indeed if that caused a change in buying habits. I'm perpetually out of touch these days, so how can a shopper see the script time and memory usage of an item?

Good I think I deserve a "well done" for always remembering to put that extra "o" in your name, without having to edit and correct it

That's right, Charolotte. It's the IMer (the affiliate) who is lying to us and not the destination website. The destination website is the one where the sign-up form is.

That could be it, Dres lol

You've got it wrong, Charolotte. The website isn't the one sending the IMs - they aren't offering money. It's the affiliate who is falsely offering money. Look at it this way... You create a commercial website and you want people to come to it. You sign up to an affiliate centre. The affiliate centre gets other people who have websites, usually hobby sites, to put links to your site on their sites. They are affiliates. You don't know who they or their websites, but you do expect anyone who comes from their sites to be genuinely interested in what your site is about. Every time someone comes to your site from theirs, and signs up, you pay the affiliate centre a small amount of money, and the centre pays part of it to the affiliate. In this current fraud, the destination is the same as your site and the IMer is the affiliate. You don't know each other, but you do expect those who come to your site from his, and sign up, to have a genuine interest. You do not expect him to be making false promises to people, just to get them to sign up in your site, so that he can get some of your money (via the affiliate centre). What you want, and expect, are people who are genuinely interested.

This thread has piqued my interest. Are there really sex beds (and other such furniture) out there that don't use poseballs? I can fully understand the simpler stuff, like chairs with various sit anims, only one of which can be chosen at a time, but is there pose-ball-free, mutli-user furniture out there?

Yes, really. If you think I was rude to her, please quote what I said that was rude.