Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:32:21 -0600 (EST) | From | Bob McElrath <> | Subject | [OFFTOPIC] Re: I found a misspelled word on your website... |
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On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Matt Busigin wrote:
> #wonder if it's not a troll,i received the exact same e-mail on the berlin > #list,as indicated in the second paragraph,i suspect he's both obsessive and > #the developpers of that particular apps (want to get some pub),i think > #there's better way to advertise a software. > > Its an obvious bot. It probably recursively searches webpages and finds > fairly close spelling errors, and most likely with some sort of percentage > chance, finds an email address on the page, and mails a randomly picked > message like the above. > > Some of these sad gimps...
Hey now, I think that's a pretty damn good idea. I've been seriously thinking about writing a bot to detect MS's evil htmlisms (" that appear as ? in netscape, and others), people who use <font size="1"> tags (which is totally unreadable on my screen), and the like...
-- Bob
Bob McElrath (rsmcelrath@students.wisc.edu) Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison
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