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Date Posted: 18:12:28 03/15/00 Wed
Author: American Woman
Author Host/IP: proxy-385.public.rwc.webtv.net / 209.240.200.85
Subject: Porn Spam

What happened is Voy was attacked by porn spammers. They spammed the voy message boards with a javascript code that automatically redirected this forum and others to their porn site. I disabled the ability to post html here, so it shouldn't happen again. But right now, we're back at http://www.insidetheweb.com/mb192372

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[> Re: Porn Spam -- Elise, 18:58:34 03/15/00 Wed [1] (spider-tl053.proxy.aol.com/152.163.207.198)

> That was so weird and it made me very angry. My kid was in the room with me when I wanted to check the board out. Luckily, he is only three and was happily playing a CD-Rom game on my other computer.


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[> [> Re: Porn Spam -- AW, 19:09:10 03/15/00 Wed [1] (proxy-385.public.rwc.webtv.net/209.240.200.85)


> > That was so weird and it made me very angry. My kid
> was in the room with me when I wanted to check the
> board out. Luckily, he is only three and was happily
> playing a CD-Rom game on my other computer.

I can imagine how you felt- I felt violated. I'm sure a lot of other posters felt the same way.Can you imagine what someone checking out this board for the first time thought? Pretty much, we(other forum owners) figured out how to get rid of it ourselves. (maybe voy staff is busy, but they sure as heck were'nt in there explaining what was going on.)


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[> [> [> Re: Porn Spam -- Tales, 23:29:00 03/16/00 Thu [1] (proxy1.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com/24.64.2.33)

Yeah, I've got a board on VOY too (a Barbara Stanwyck forum), and a web site on Homestead which links to the Voy board, and lots of other sites have links to mine which in turn links to Voy etc. etc. etc...... So people go looking for Barbara Stanwyck and end up getting porn. It bites.


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