Spam Private Messages

[jobob]

Who do you mean by "they" ?

[ASammy1]

I've received more than one from that guy, but just deleted him. It's annoying, but he was polite. Thanks for banning him, admins!

[Geonz]

Me too... yea, the content was "fine" -- but then, *why* the PM route? Why spam? Something didn't smell right about it. Maybe it was a hacker experimenting with a mass PM program and planning nefarious things later...

[DarcyInOregon]

Hmmm, guess I was the only one who went over to the other site. I like it because it has a diversity of people, the ability to have more photos, one can blog, and the site is well monitored by the administrators. I don't have much time to spend in these type of discussion forums because my days are pretty busy. After enough years the content becomes repetitive on all of the cycling forums, blah blah blah saddles ... butt pain ... bonking ... what to eat ... crashed ... clipless pedals ... blah blah blah, however I do think the other site is just as nice as Team Estrogen.

[teigyr]

It's not like I spend far too much time on the computer or anything nor am I perpetually distrustful but I always figure there's a reason why people do what they do. That one was kind of simple for short-range goals and my guess is somewhere along the way step 3 will be profit. They wanted traffic to come to their site and are very concerned about where they appear on a google search. Page 1? Page 2? They wanted page 1 and had some ideas about how to accomplish that. As far as what happens later on after it happens (maybe they're looking for advertisers?), who knows.

I did find the whole twitter request strange. Yeah he was polite but why would a stranger want everyone's twits? Er, I mean tweets.

Am pretty sure I know who the mysterious Gavin_M is on the other site and once you do that and then go back to previous posts here (info gathering) and then there, you can see what led up to it. Again, not saying it's bad. Just is.