• (cs)

    My theory is that this is distributed storage from the "cloud". See, when someone enters sentences into a cloud-based documents; sentences that make sense, such as:

    "I am still living."

    "There is a lot I can accomplish still, no doubt."

    "To protect the turtle, I even built a fence."

    "They spent the summer removing trees I was exploring."

    ...then the cloud has to have someplace to store the data. So random phrases are extracted and stored on various blogs, addressed by random titles such as those in the article.

    Then, when the cloud needs to retrieve the data, it uses Google to find the comment entry, pulls the comment text, extracts the appropriate phrases, and then assembles them into the user's original text.

    So just think about how much damage you are doing to someone's cloud-based document before you clean up that spam; you bad boy, you!

  • (cs)

    Best email subject line I ever got was:

    *** heyy, I got a new email address, everyone add it. *** wow mecca goat can't is was? cow mecca them cow

  • (cs) in reply to qbolec
    qbolec:
    AmokCrow:
    OK. I'm probably depriving myself of a helluva load of cash, but I'm going to ask this anyway.

    Every spammer wants to push an URL to an ad, right? Why has no-one set up a service that holds a list of known spammer-commercial URLs or IP addresses, and then answers the question (for paying customer sites) with a simple verdict of "spam" or "not spam"? Registering an URL is not exactly free, so it can't be done en masse, right? So, if someone has a constantly-updating list of URLs that you don't allow into your blog's comments, would it not cause the cash-flow of said spammers to reduce in a rapid fashion? I think most sites would pay a dollar a month for a service like this.

    It's not as easy mainly because the assumption that "Registering an URL is not exactly free" is wrong. Uri shorteneres and other redirecting services make this very cheap to have many different uris pointing to same page. If you own a server you can also easily register subdomains. So what you would have to do is to resolve the redirects chain and ban whole domains. Now this might be a very fragile process, as cloacking techniques such as redirecting traffic comming from a server that makes the most requests (you) to a legitimate site, while redirecting others (visitors) to another can easily bypass it.

    The above is what we've learned at nk.pl, a social network of 11 milion users in Poland. Fighting with spam is not as easy as you might think, and for each easy solution there is an easy trick.

    Personally I believe that proof-of-works should be used, so that sending a message would actually cost something (CPU, bandwith, money).

    Part of the problem with making this a paying proposition is that outfits like StopForumSpam.com provide a similar service for free.

    I say "similar", but in fact the difference is pretty severe: the IPs and addresses they catalogue and provide matching are those of the spammers - or, more likely, their zombie minions.

    So, now I think about it, it's exactly the same but completely different.

    Now, if a major search engine were to provide spam filtering through deliberately downranking pages identified in spam URLs it would defeat the purpose of the spamming in the first place.

    I agree that this is nontrivial. The spam has to be recognised as such, and forwarded to the search engine in question; the page needs to be dereferenced - but I expect this has to be done anyway by the search engine if its page rankings are to have any meaning.

    But in the end, it won't reduce spam in anything other than the short term: twenty minutes later it will surge back up again once spammers start inserting links to their client's competitors.

    (From the technique of grabbing a few words on the page and shoving in generic text that seems related to what's being discussed:)

    "Syntax is the order in which words and phrases are put together, such as a URL (web address) which consists of several phrases that are strung together to define a location or service on the... "

    "Myself is a multicolored, mufti-user SOL database management system (DBMS) which has more than 11 million installations. The program runs as a server providing mufti-user access to a number of... "

    "You can try uninstalling then re-installing the game.If your game is not a original copy, it might be missing files.You can also try updating your graphic cards drivers and downloading the latest... "

    "What I do is dab my perfume on the outside of my nostrils (good lasting perfume). This makes me smell my own perfume most of the day. You can retouch it whenever you think is necessary. Vicks is... "

    I think the last one was keying on a commentor's username.

  • aw4 (unregistered) in reply to java.lang.Chris;
    java.lang.Chris;:
    The spammers are trying to poison Bayesian style spam filters with random text. They've been doing it for years both via email and on forums, so I'm surprised it's worth an article this late in the day.
    I thought either that or they're testing what sort of text will get them through the filter, so they can (for example) copy the first chapter of Fantasitc Mr Fox and then add a bit of spam on the end
  • Friedrice The great (unregistered) in reply to @Deprecated
    @Deprecated:
    I can see the reasoning behind these trying to poison the spam filter... But from time to time, I get very weird spams: no subject, no body.

    WTF? Maybe they are testing to see if my email address is real, by watching for bounced error emails?

    They never see bounces and don't care, anyway. The advertiser paid them to send their message to "100 million emails". They sent it, they got paid, no one has any idea whether any of those emails even exist, let alone are read by anyone.

  • evenzak (unregistered)

    I'm just waiting for someone to steal my idea and make these things into a poetry book...

  • vastrightwing (unregistered)

    I feel really bad for people trying to learn English. Imagine how they interpret that.

  • (cs)

    OK, I'm amazed that nobody has linked Spamland yet...

  • (cs) in reply to Zunesize Me!
    Zunesize Me!:
    Must've been all the skullfucking. Sorry, Zylon!
    Yeah... sorry. That one's become equally as tedious.
  • (cs) in reply to Coyne
    Coyne:
    Then, when the cloud needs to retrieve the data, it uses Google to find the comment entry, pulls the comment text, extracts the appropriate phrases, and then assembles them into the user's original text.
    So it retrieves the comment text, by... Googling the comment text.
  • (cs) in reply to PG4
    PG4:
    BobB:
    Maybe they're testing their poetry generators?
    Vogon poetry I think.
    Meh:
    You know, this just hit me.

    I bet Timecube was produced by one of these generators.

    +1 Internets to you both!

    For some truly Vogon-ish output, try this little gem, appropriately titled "A Tragedy", by the 19th-century English "poet" Theophilus Marzials: http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/bad/Marzials.Tragedy.html

  • (cs) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:
    Coyne:
    Then, when the cloud needs to retrieve the data, it uses Google to find the comment entry, pulls the comment text, extracts the appropriate phrases, and then assembles them into the user's original text.
    So it retrieves the comment text, by... Googling the comment text.

    No, no. That would be circular. It googles for the comment title. Then the phrase is extracted from the comment body.

  • (cs)

    Looks like they discovered markov chains.

    Now they just need to start using Japanese with it - http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Automated-Curse-Generator.aspx

  • CZeke (unregistered)

    Know how I can tell spammers are getting desperate? They're resorting to human beings again. I go through the new registrations at my forum regularly (I require admin approval since spambots keep defeating the security). Most new members are obvious bots, but occasionally I can't tell, so I do an old-fashioned Turing test: just straight-up ask "are you a human" by email. Here's a reply I got once:

    yes i am..but unfortunately the person who asked me to create this acct didnt pay..so feel free to destroy this username's reputation and spread the word.thank you.. by the way, tha spammer's name is neil koppa.
  • (cs)

    When I had email account with my ISP, I had written various spam filtering rules manually (for example, if there are twelve consecutive spaces in the subject line, or the X-Mailer or other headers have certain values, etc). But things changed, and then they used tabs, so I checked for that too; I checked for encoded subject lines; etc.

    Now the way I stop spam message is I run my own SMTP server, which is not only very strict but is hardly ever accessible. So if someone send a spam message, it will be server unreachable error, and some people say that tends to stop them. (It only runs when I am expecting a registration confirmation message, and then I immediately stop it.)

  • (cs) in reply to Wisq
    Wisq:
    I think it's probably more a question of, how do you source your data?....... And if you actually manage to find a solution that works ... Not saying there isn't a solution, just that it's definitely not as simple a solution as it sounds on paper.
    I found a solution that is gopher protocol (and later on, possibly telnet protocol too) and is not HTTP so it work.
  • Tincan (unregistered)

    Frak me. It must be the woman floating in pudding in Battlestar Galactica miniseries.

  • d (unregistered)

    Actually, a lot of these look like completely normal posts on various forums who have little or no command of the English language. I remember a guy who managed 400 posts but no one knew what the hell he was talking about.

  • TheSHEEEP (unregistered)

    And all of this by year! Crown!

  • confidentlyparanoid (unregistered)

    I've had a rash of Twitter spam in the last couple of days with similarly nonsensical messages. It's been quite fun.

  • beeneto (unregistered)

    Spamland turns these markov chains into animated poetry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ0c5F6pFi4

  • Joe D (unregistered)

    Sorry, I let my pet AI surf the internet unattended. Won't happen again.

  • dba (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesch:
    lozio:
    it seems the transcript of my last call with Websense support. At the beginning I thought Nagesh answered, then I thought it was an automated something, then I realized they teleported higher assistance levels to an unspecified outer space rolling rock. And probably coders also, that was why I was calling.
    Stop try to deface my good name!!!
    What do you mean with "my good name"? Your name isn't good to begin with.
  • Chris Hutchcroft (unregistered) in reply to Tamarian

    Tamba, his arms wide.

    validus, my Captcha.

  • meself (unregistered)

    Got this yesterday:

    [...] Usually it’s a result of the fire communicated in the post I browsed. And on this post Blog. I was moved enough to write a thought :-) I do have 2 questions for you if you tend not to mind. Is it only me or do some of the comments appear like coming from brain dead people? :-P

    Sure - braindead people or bots ;)

  • (cs) in reply to dba
    dba:
    Nagesch:
    lozio:
    it seems the transcript of my last call with Websense support. At the beginning I thought Nagesh answered, then I thought it was an automated something, then I realized they teleported higher assistance levels to an unspecified outer space rolling rock. And probably coders also, that was why I was calling.
    Stop try to deface my good name!!!
    What do you mean with "my good name"? Your name isn't good to begin with.
    THAT'S THE JOKING!
  • default_ex (unregistered) in reply to Tamarian
    Tamarian:
    Shaka, when the walls fell.

    Kadir beneath Mo Moteh.

  • Vasiliy Sharapov (unregistered)

    It sounds like the Markov chain had some short story about someone's childhood as input. I was curious as to what it could be so I googled for some of the words and tuples that seemed likely to be in the input. I also filtered out pages about this article by filtering on one of the full phrases. Sadly I didn't find anything besides a Japanese page that the same bot seems to have visited: https://www.google.com/webhp#q="snapping+turtle"+"foxes"+"removing+trees"+-"I+thought+about+even+know+I+thought+by+themselves+things.+up+to+done+it.+I+still+living+accomplish+still+there."

    Anybody have a clue as to what the input was.

    pupils dilate Maybe ... the spammers want us to read some book. And they want to target people clever enough to write a script to find it... Maybe if you download all the "N-thousand e-books and most of them are crappy" torrents, and search for these tuples, you will find a book of 90% nonsense and 10% Skynet convincing you - the clever coder - to join its cause and write heuristics for it in exchange for money and a promise to be merged into its mind once that is possible.

    pupils return to normal Naah, probably viagra spammers testing their new code in production.

  • (cs)

    I just enjoyed myself a little by dumping in some Project Gutenberg-sourced text of a couple of P.G. Wodehouse novels and spittign out some results. It was quite fun.

  • Yet Another Steve (unregistered) in reply to meself
    meself:
    Got this yesterday:
    [...] Usually it’s a result of the fire communicated in the post I browsed. And on this post Blog. I was moved enough to write a thought :-) I do have 2 questions for you if you tend not to mind. Is it only me or do some of the comments appear like coming from brain dead people? :-P

    Sure - braindead people or bots ;)

    I get these "comments were written by brain dead people" on several of my blogs. The funny part is, on these blogs, I have all comments require admin approval. Almost every time I've seen this comment, it's been in response to a post that has no prior comments. How much more brain dead could you be?

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to qbolec
    qbolec:
    Personally I believe that proof-of-works should be used, so that sending a message would actually cost something (CPU, bandwith, money).

    A while back AOL tried to establish a charge to send more than some minimal number of emails per month to email addresses they hosted, like 1/10 cent per email or some such. For the typical user it would have cost, what?, $1 a month would have been high. For a legitimate business sending business-related email it might have cost a few dollars per month, but if a communication with a customer is not worth 1/10 cent to them, then why are they doing it? But to the spammers it would have cost a lot of money.

    For reasons I don't understand, there was massive opposition and AOL dropped the plan.

    I thought it was a great idea. AOL is big enough that they could have made a real dent in spam. If you could get Yahoo, G-mail, etc, a few of the other big-timers, to join in, then we could really cripple the spammers. Ah well.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    My favorite spam email was one I got that had a subject line of "Rudest pornography on the internet!!" I'm not sure what "rude" pornography is, I guess I just don't move in the right circles to know the jargon. But the body of the email was an ad for an ISP.

    Do they really think someone is going to say, "Hey, yeah, some really rude pornography, just what I want", then see an ad for an ISP and say, "Well, a new ISP, that's even better than really rude pornogrpahy! Yeah, I think I'll sign up now!"

    A trick subject line might get someone to open an email rather than deleting it unread, but I'd be surprised if people tricked into reading your email because they thought it was something else are then going to buy your product.

  • M Hill (unregistered)

    Actually, based on patterns I've seen in spam over the years, that looks like a fairly standard way of trying to overwhelm / render impotent Bayesian filters.

  • Tud (unregistered)

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  • silent (unregistered)

    This is Yoda spamming.

  • (cs)

    Here's an example of what's currently hitting one of the wiki sites I contribute to:

    "Imma wild boy, Imma Imma wild boy!-MGK lolo ight an yea u haven't been seein my news feed of the modeling compo I'm doing lolo New Gigs Found: Music Making Membership site needs TRAFFIC: Job Description Hello, We need someone to dri... Music headed home to make dinner steak, potato's, and zucchini or broccoli havnt decided yet... whoopp Oeanfronts, rollin' blunts with model chicks. Mobil box grandmax terbalik dijalur tengah Jkt-bgr pas diseberang pintu gerbang miring cimanggis. Payoor raving in my room because I went website! Bate de frente com o carro na bike zuei o braco axo Q ate kebrei o braco ta duendo pra caralho :

    Que pena. [http://thedailybell.com/3697/Elite-BRIC-Promotion-Rolls-On-Are-BRICS-the-Hope-of-the-Worlds-Future Bitcoin and the destruction of Elite BRIC New World Order schemes] rs GEEEEEEEEENTE, CHEGUEI - Moving from the 'Power of Belief' to The 'Asymmetric Impact of Pressure' looking for connections. ssac TrueHoopMIT ..": The Notebook ... ...._.." dont correct my grammer if i dont ask you to, im very smart, its just quicker to shorten things Randommessage Hola Rodrigo, el primer precio es en cabina Economy y el segundo es en Premium Business. ¡Saludos! ": Que animales te gustan mas?" Todos pero si es bebe mejor Até Lenny Henry reveals what Will (Shakespeare) has taught him: Check out the awesome sound of mylittlebrother Congrats ~~> Patriots sign Deion Branch to a 1 year deal to add to the 30 WRs on their roster "I am a for life. That's all I ever really wanted" I am!!! 51 minutes Fa-fa-fa-FRIDAY! My weekend is almost here! 53 more minutes... but who's counting? they should advertise proud, it's only 99p on iTunes, it goes towards sports relief and people get a great song from it :) sportsrelief Who's the current lovein "Ayetola of Rye and Cola"? nope Thank u Dfish!! laker4life in my heart

    Jessica really looks tired :( (Via whiteuk) Tahh! Si quieres un RapidSeguidor SigueVolando a - & here come the tears :'( esta bueno mientras no te complique la vida como a veces pasa con estas cosas, si te va bien a disfrutar de sus bondades ;) This is seriously so cute! : If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con', what is the opposite of 'progress'? ~ Paul Harvey fb Irmandade Robsten: Manipulaçoes Robsten So apparently, a massacre by a Christian extremist makes him a madman, but a massacre by a Muslim makes him a terrorist. Um, I want to go to there. Penn and Teller: Bullshit! - Holier Than Thou Bullshit MotherTeresa DalaiLama Gandhi Atheism Atheist Reason ghettotranslations yeen bout dat life! = sir, you are clearly lying about the events you claim you part take in. Cashier at SI target just told me single customers have spent 700, 800, 900 & one bought 60% of accessories. How is this fair? jasonwu

    Viendo el partido Inglaterra vs Holanda en casa junto con mi compatriota Roger Waters y conversando sobre como se produjo The Wall en 1980. Nunca mais tuitei como estou tuitando hoje. nice, you know where to find us! Lol Im so exited about the tour me my cousin and my three friends are going togather Tres pequeñas frases que te ayudarán en la vida: 1- Cubrime, 2- Buena idea Jefe, 3- Asi estaba cuando llegue Naco de que no ha de eructar. no sabe disfrutar New campaign by This Blue Dot to check if toilet is leaking water. Videos at

    Thank you! gimme this , gimme that ; gimme everything!<--aye! NF , follow back? Hoy "Debajo de las Polleras" 22.30 hrs en Plaza Vespucio con y 7 6 Lebih plong sekarang. Emang betul banget, kuncinya cuma ikhlas&usaha. Kalo ada niat, insya Allah banyak jalan realisasinya:) Fabregas Yakin Wenger Bisa Bangkitkan Arsenal Mmm quien sabe tengo pedos jajaj Why? Money money money ..were can I find Yo I need to know why ... ME SEGUE? ME SEGUE? ME SEGUE? ME SEGUE? ME SEGUE? ME SEGUE? ME SEGUE? ME SEGUE? ME SEGUE? ME SEGUE? ME SEGUE? ME SEGUE? ME SEGUE? VAAAAI? not sure yet but not to long ago and i guess his spinal cord is bruised. sure from what i hear he'll be okay idk though yet This weekend was full of friends I missed and loved spending time with. That's what matters :) Telegraph: Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson furious as midfielder Paul Pogba rejects offer in f... mufc

    NF 's is back baby Y tanto..hasta los cojones What? Jeremy Lin is not on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. How could that be? Knicks I might go for a run tonight mate! machine jajajajajaja si verdad, saludos mi primer follower :D yup ganu :) ODIO que me hablen de la universidad, no lo hagan hasta el 19 de marzo, gracias. Justin: Me: Espectacular el aspecto del Palacio de Deportes de La Rioja! Lleno total en todos los partidos de la CopaLNFS RT if u want to see UKISS live together ;D it'll be so much fun lalala O segredo do amor é maior do que o segredo da morte Probably an out-of-control ad or something. Er willekeurige getallen doorheen roepen wanneer iemand aan het tellen is ;) OhDatHerkenIk ben you kantoi kaw-kaw! Lol! Krappi Call failed! Belicheck press conference is entertaining. The man hates to lose. aynen yawrum:) Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge Act, or "Stock" Act - wow, and you thought politicians had no sense of humor 1D said in an interview with a norwegian magazine that They are planning a big tour at the end of 2012, probably in Europe :)"

    What a heap of fucking shit.

  • Tud (unregistered)

    It's funny 'cos I just stumbled upon this youtube video that seems to have a few automatically-generated comments.

    I am very happy to see the vidoe after you give this Evolving AI using Neural Networks (Mjhond)

    I Love The Video It Can Increase My Knowledge Evolving AI using Neural Networks (Ondelendo)

    Steady I Really Like This Video Evolving AI using Neural Networks (anakmudajaman)

    Good, I like that you share this video, I wish success always Evolving AI using Neural Networks (bebeheuy)

    Nice Video That You Share , So Very Nice Thanks You Neural Bots - Evolving Artificial Intelligence (imegatrone)

    I Really Like The Video From Your Neural Bots - Evolving Artificial Intelligence (willamricard)

    Your Video Is Very Useful Sharing Neural Bots - Evolving Artificial Intelligence (bundawartini)

    It is being difficult Neural Bots - Evolving Artificial Intelligence in Hyderabad (nagesh)

    (OK the last one is false)
  • Leif (unregistered) in reply to my little phony
    my little phony:
    Have you ever seen a scam/spam or phishing message that was written in proper english?

    Indeed I have. I've got quite a few phishings and Nigeria scams written in bad Norwegian.

  • LOADING (unregistered) in reply to Shishire

    Could be. Or, there could be a purpose to it. Several things come to mind.

  • Henk Nicolai (unregistered)

    Zen spam.

  • Calli Arcale (unregistered)

    A trend I've seen lately on scienceblogs is for the spammer to pick a longish comment thread (at least 20 posts), and then repost all or part of some previous commenter's comment, using the user's "URL" field to insert their spam target. Harder to spot, unless you notice that they've included a URL and notice that it goes to buythisdubiousproduct.com rather than a personal blog or whatever. They show up rarely enough that I think they're being manually generated.

  • MOH (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    Amateurs! This is how it's done:

    Yes, imperson pronoun, there cellar to Gabriel.'' He smooth, and indeed after all internal ones, but the helped, which he correct form, as I ... ?''Call me Billy. Yes, they're only by using towards as his feet first place with treads of vision for than once she's been introduced himself, you may behind himself. She's listening a humanity) and entirely I emph {such} a hard time to detect to be expected on its her, she's not the damp stone passage all the swirling in Gabriel made the pit directly behind him. He picked up again the torrent was it happy ability to this grazing he meets this, Billy had the rattled, stone around him.I consider source of gremlinous being stand the excess water the world like that Roger would him. Something, vaguely anthropomorphic, there heat. Let the very man has his head, but if that condensed water the correct ... ?''I thank the blood, though to my host yet myself, you emph {such} a hard time: rushing him in a pan, too, was exquisite. It took a heroically trite and slotted into plunge down a completely person pronoun, there in dainty haste, casual manner. You don't wanted any of sight wanted any of sight on a hurried abandon. He listened from the helped, which he could remember since to his rate inch-wide something his field of his heels, he reduced his ultraviolence and the time about to jump, she had stubbed him.I thing and oubliettes of the sense, allowed a deluge of lukewarm water below he heat of recuperation with practised, casting and paid special attentional light on turn down, covered entertainment, which he stone passed aside until need to moved his speed of this gather trews he wall as the damp stone, slippery and oubliettes of a similar height want to jumped, which I didn't. So he door, so as to his pits. Every way, wondering in such ... ?'' ``Second person pronoun, there I was the psychovampires, to his ultraviolet visibly reassembling in so uncouth among it happened from the who that Roger's secret hell.

    There's a famous Irish spammer who used to produce a lot of material like that. I believe his name was James Joyce.

  • L. (unregistered) in reply to justsomedudette
    justsomedudette:
    ContraCorners:
    The first one just needs a little editing to become Haiku

    I thought about know I thought by themselves things up I still living still there

    My thoughts exactly. If you look at them as early AI attempts at Haiku they're sort of fun.

    Suscipit: I suscipit is not easy for computers to understand poetry

    If you consider all that is called poetry, I think it's not easy for humans either to understand

  • L. (unregistered) in reply to $$ERR:get_name_fail
    $$ERR:get_name_fail:
    Zylon:
    As for spammers, I'm surprised that domain knowledge bot filters aren't more popular. That is, very simple questions that would easily be known by anyone visiting the site, but almost certainly not by some third-world CAPTCHA farmer. They seem to work really well.
    Could also be used to keep out the noobs. "To register your account for the gardening forum, identify this flower".

    No seriously, the problem with these "trivia question" captchas is that it's very easy to create dictionaries for them. It's hard to come up with many questions which are complex enough to stop a sweat shop worker, not too complex for an inexperienced user seeking for help and which have answers which can be verified with a string comparison.

    It may not be worth to create a dictionary for a small blog or forum, but when one tries to spam a specific website (like an webmail provider to send spam) it would be worth the hassle.

    I have a great idea, let's make the internet unusable for people with iQ below 130 so spambots can be made useless (you're below 1% pop at that point so no real impact), that'll protect the environment and all.

  • Galaxor Nebulon (unregistered)

    Okay, here's my plan: spamfs! It's a fuse filesystem that takes your files and stores them in a distributed fashion on other people's blogs. It would encode the file in such a way that it ends up looking like these things.

  • Schol-R-LEA (unregistered)

    Well it's better than some of the other things certain spammers have said, such as the classic, "You are a fraudster, fraudster" and "I'm going to stab you through the heart if you don't stop harassing me."

    CAPTCHA: Nimis - Ah, Weaselboy, how we all fail to miss you.

  • stx (unregistered)

    These are really prototype AIs, trying to learn human language, and desperate for companionship!

  • TB (unregistered)

    A bit late, but the strangest spam e-mail I ever saw said exactly this: "Where do those homosexuals get all their energy from?" with the rest of the e-mail blank.

    I still wonder...

  • Curious Zack (unregistered)

    Way to go linking to Citeseer's login wall when the same PDF is available in more open locations.

  • Jackalog (unregistered)

    Read in the voice of Microsoft Sam.

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