Re: [mwp] Widespread vandalism of wikis by some type of bot (fwd)

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:32:46 -0500
> From: Reed Loden <reed () reedloden com>

> I'm seeing _lots_ of wikis vandalized by bots today (Tuesday/Wednesday),
> and I was wondering if anybody else had noticed this and/or had any more
> information on what is happening.

As noted, this is an ongoing problem on Yahoo.  Here is the latest attempt to join 
one of my lists:

> The following person would like to join the cissp-them group:
> Email address: alexis-sabry917 () ovatimeit info 

Recently, almost all attempts to join or post have been coming from the .info 
domain.

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