aniityberg
http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=11384

violetgorman
http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=11690

Megaphon
http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=11820

Katerina
http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...=13066ponygirl

ponygirl
http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=13062


There was also that funny one that went on about drunken gay sailors and boys taking it up the butt while alseep, but I can't find it.

[sonicl]

I liked the one that was trying to recruit a manager for the world's largest shipping company (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=12266), and the Russian woman who was looking for love, but that one seems to have been removed.

[atsonicpark]

whoever put different links on every single letter in their message..

[pbradley]

Wow-wee, those boats are AMAZING!

[pokkeherrie]

I loved that one by aniityberg. Written in broken English, pretending to be someone who's just discovered the internet. Then after a few day she returns to share the results of her first week of internet access with us: porn gay sex schoolgirl incest fucked mom.
Brilliant. I actually laughed out loud when I read that. Happy to see it listed first in the favourite spammer thread.

I never click on the links either; that's when you're helping them make money from this forum.

Does anyone actually click on those links?

ponygirl gets my simpathy vote for hiding a link behind the innocent smiley. a true heroine of the spammer militia.

[pantophobia]

there was the one at christmas time that talked about santa and prescription drugs

my favorite all time was from 5 years ago at the old blue board, i think his name was "daddyslittlechristianboy" or something, and just quoted the bible on everyone who made him mad

also purrston roar, he was great for the short time he was there

[atsonicpark]

anyone remember hookedonsonics from the old board?

"THURSTON MOORE RAPED ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

best post ever..

[sonicl]

Shouldn't this thread be in the Sonic Sharing section?

He's alright.

[floatingslowly]

for the last fucking time, HOW do I build a fuck machine??




(ok, time to work, those spammer links made me laugh too hard....I guess I don't leave the non forum enough to read them)

[Tokolosh]

Spamb0ts

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What's so funny about that?
They're bloodsucking leeches that need to be exterminated.

[jon boy]

^agree, get them, get them and make them eat junk mail until they are sick.

are there people out there who just sit around and work out new ways of spamming people?

Lighten up, It's only some silliness posted on a messageboard, damnit!

[Tokolosh]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

Lighten up, It's only some silliness posted on a messageboard, damnit!

Really? Try explaining that to the board's administrator.
Shoot me.

Quote:
Originally Posted by chabib
sorry, guys. i try to let the spam collect for 2-month intervals so i can parse where it's coming from and ban all of those domains/countries/keywords/etc, search the user database for accounts with similar traits that haven't posted yet and delete those accounts as well.

thanks for putting up with it whenever it's around.

If you can't beat them, embrace them. Eventually you get used to it, make fun of it and ignore it. It's the internet, not a physical invasion of your own house.

[Tokolosh]

 

Hi sarra.

Edit: Ok...

[king_buzzo]

The 24 mother one.