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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-13-09 10:17 AM
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Question about spam
And anyone who makes a Python joke is predictable and boring.


I participate in another online discussion board using a generic platform.

Every Sunday for the past month or so, the entire server's been inaccessible. After dodging the question for several weeks, the server admins finally admitted that there's a problem and that they're working on it. Blah blah blah.

Their claim is that some kind of spambot has been circumventing their anti-spam protocols, resulting in thousands of spam messages being posted.


Is it feasible that this should happen for eight hours every Sunday? It seems weird that the outage would occur with such regularity, but for all I know that's how these things normally work.


Any guesses?
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-13-09 10:28 AM
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1. Maybe everyone who works at the board is too busy on Sunday.
They might be making and eating this...


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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-13-09 10:31 AM
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2. I run a website and I have seen a lot of incredible things involving spam
So I would say it is possible.
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