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Rick Stone

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Nov 10, 2012, 4:06:50 AM11/10/12
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Hey,

I stayed away for a long while because the group was getting so much
"non-guitar" spam. I don't mind the "gig spam" and such as long is it's
relevant to the group (it's kind of nice to know what everyone else is
doing). But that movie spam got to be a bit nuts.

So those idiot movie spammers are now finally gone?

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faz...@bebop.org

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Nov 10, 2012, 6:41:51 AM11/10/12
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On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 04:06:50 -0500, Rick Stone
<rick...@rickstone.com> wrote:

>Hey,
>
>I stayed away for a long while because the group was getting so much
>"non-guitar" spam. I don't mind the "gig spam" and such as long is it's
>relevant to the group (it's kind of nice to know what everyone else is
>doing). But that movie spam got to be a bit nuts.
>
>So those idiot movie spammers are now finally gone?
They're just gearing up for another onslaught. Like telemarketers,
child pornographers, politicians,and whores, they are always hustling.

Gerry

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Nov 10, 2012, 12:13:03 PM11/10/12
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On 2012-11-10 09:06:50 +0000, Rick Stone said:

> Hey,
>
> I stayed away for a long while because the group was getting so much
> "non-guitar" spam. I don't mind the "gig spam" and such as long is
> it's relevant to the group (it's kind of nice to know what everyone
> else is doing). But that movie spam got to be a bit nuts.
>
> So those idiot movie spammers are now finally gone?

There is no "final" to internet noise. I'm sure someone else will
consider this a good place for wasting time and calling it "marketing"
in the future. The Bollywood crew was preceded by the knock-off purse
merchats, and before that (and after) athletic shoes peddlers.

In the case of the Bollywood stuff, they were marketing a site, so all
they needed to get was "traffic" not sales. They undoubtedly got some
curious traffic in the first week or two, but after that they got
nothing.

The amazing thing is that they all spew all this marketing, and in the
end they couldn't possible make any money on it compared to the spew.
It's like advertising diabetes drugs by stapling flyers to phone poles
near a college campus: Dumping their flyers out on the highway would
produce higher yield. It's pretty much the opposite of "directed
marketing".
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Tim

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Nov 11, 2012, 12:42:31 PM11/11/12
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Theyll be back. In one form or another

TD

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Nov 11, 2012, 12:45:09 PM11/11/12
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To the tune of "What's Your Movie?" -Mose Allison

Mike Neer

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Nov 11, 2012, 2:37:20 PM11/11/12
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Vigilance, my friend, vigilance. Report the spammers.

Nil

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Nov 11, 2012, 4:46:14 PM11/11/12
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On 11 Nov 2012, Mike Neer <ionah...@yahoo.com> wrote in
rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz:

> Vigilance, my friend, vigilance. Report the spammers.

That's what I did, and I think it helped. The tricky part is knowing to
to report them to.

Reporting them to Google is a waste of time. If they advertise other
web sites, it can be effective to report them to that site's host.

Rick Stone

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Nov 12, 2012, 12:48:29 AM11/12/12
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On 11/10/2012 12:13 PM, Gerry wrote:
> The amazing thing is that they all spew all this marketing, and in the
> end they couldn't possible make any money on it compared to the spew.
> It's like advertising diabetes drugs by stapling flyers to phone poles
> near a college campus: Dumping their flyers out on the highway would
> produce higher yield. It's pretty much the opposite of "directed
> marketing".

But you realize that they're not trying to sell this stuff to *us*. It's
all about search engine ranking. Google archives the newsgroups and the
number of backlinks is one of the criteria for how something shows up in
a Google search. Someone hires these clowns to boost their search engine
rankings and if they generate a ton of backlinks all over the internet,
it works for awhile (until Google catches on and adjusts the algorithm).

Gerry

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Nov 12, 2012, 10:18:02 AM11/12/12
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On 2012-11-12 05:48:29 +0000, Rick Stone said:

> On 11/10/2012 12:13 PM, Gerry wrote:
>> The amazing thing is that they all spew all this marketing, and in the
>> end they couldn't possible make any money on it compared to the spew.
>> It's like advertising diabetes drugs by stapling flyers to phone poles
>> near a college campus: Dumping their flyers out on the highway would
>> produce higher yield. It's pretty much the opposite of "directed
>> marketing".
>
> But you realize that they're not trying to sell this stuff to *us*.
> It's all about search engine ranking. Google archives the newsgroups
> and the number of backlinks is one of the criteria for how something
> shows up in a Google search. Someone hires these clowns to boost their
> search engine rankings and if they generate a ton of backlinks all over
> the internet, it works for awhile (until Google catches on and adjusts
> the algorithm).

Sounds feasible. It's interesting that I've never hit a bollyspam,
knock-off purse or shoe link via google.

charlieguitar

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Nov 12, 2012, 9:39:30 PM11/12/12
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Shhh

Jazzer

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Nov 13, 2012, 3:44:43 PM11/13/12
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One 'movie spammer' (iL_WeReo) seems to have taken up permanent
residence here. :(
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