Why do we have spammers about?

[Mustang]

She is my hero and I'm calling her Speedy Gonzales from now on.

I thought Carla was a pussycat

[Peg]

Originally Posted by Mustang

I thought Carla was a pussycat

[CARLA]

Praise you Floppy I knew someone else was about as I was deleting them as fast as I could them bam, bam the rest were gone, then I went to bed. Team work is a good thing thank you my friend.

I will hurt you..!!

[Odie]

Originally Posted by oscar

Hail Carla the defender of FG.

Remind me never to upset her

ditto!

[Nomad]

I can only assume you refer to spammers as those that consume spam.
I hope this gives you some insight.




Spam is a canned precooked meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation. The labeled ingredients in the classic variety of Spam are: chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added, salt, water, sugar, and sodium nitrite to help keep its color. Spam's gelatinous glaze, or aspic, forms from the cooling of meat stock.[1] The product has become part of many jokes and urban legends about mystery meat, which has made it part of pop culture and folklore.
Varieties of Spam vary by region and include Spam Classic, Spam Hot & Spicy, Spam Less Sodium, Spam Lite, Spam Oven Roasted Turkey, Hickory Smoked, and Spam Spread.[2]
Spam sold in North America, South America, and Australia is produced in Austin, Minnesota, (also known as Spam Town USA) and in Fremont, Nebraska. Spam for the UK market is produced in Denmark by Tulip under license from Hormel.[3] Spam is also made in the Philippines and in South Korea.[4] In 2002, the six billionth can of Spam was sold.[5]
Introduced on July 5, 1937, the name "Spam" was chosen when the product, whose original name was far less memorable (Hormel Spiced Ham), began to lose market share. The name was chosen from multiple entries in a naming contest. A Hormel official once stated that the original meaning of the name "Spam" was "Shoulder of Pork and Ham".[6] According to writer Marguerite Patten in Spam – The Cookbook, the name was suggested by Kenneth Daigneau, an actor and the brother of a Hormel vice president, who was given a $100 prize for coming up with the name.[7] At one time, the official explanation was that the name was a syllabic abbreviation of "Spiced Ham". According to the British documentary-reality show "1940's House", when SPAM was offered by the US to those affected by WWII in the UK, SPAM stood for Specially Processed American Meats. Many jocular backronyms have been devised, such as "Something Posing As Meat", "Stuff, Pork and Ham" and "Spare Parts Animal Meat".[8]
According to Hormel's trademark guidelines, Spam should be spelled with all capital letters and treated as an adjective, as in the phrase "SPAM luncheon meat".

[Bryn Mawr]

Originally Posted by oscar

Not only is very easy to track an IP address, it also shows if some-one is posting as two people or from the same address.

At the most it can show that two posts were made from the same computer (and it doesn't always prove that). It says nothing about the person composing the post.

[oscar]

Originally Posted by Bryn Mawr

At the most it can show that two posts were made from the same computer (and it doesn't always prove that). It says nothing about the person composing the post.

I understand there is the right software available to track an IP address to a building?

[Kathy Ellen]

Spammer is back again "websitedata." He has a great deal of perseverance

[Bryn Mawr]

Originally Posted by oscar

I understand there is the right software available to track an IP address to a building?

If the ISP is using dynamic IP addressing then the same IP address will be allocated to different users at different times - it is only where a user has a static IP address that you can tie the IP address itself to a specific building, otherwise you need to track the individual post to its source which is far more difficult.

[oscar]

Originally Posted by Bryn Mawr

If the ISP is using dynamic IP addressing then the same IP address will be allocated to different users at different times - it is only where a user has a static IP address that you can tie the IP address itself to a specific building, otherwise you need to track the individual post to its source which is far more difficult.

I have recently learnt how easy it is to track an IP address to a building with some scanners. I also learnt there is a mass of sites on the web that you can download for free to track also. It's way above my head, but anyoone who is a bit of a computer whizz can do it fairly well.