Re: Are the Moldovians math freaks?

From: Rick Pikul (rwpikul_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 06/25/05

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    Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 02:35:10 -0400

    On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 05:53:43 -0400, Tony Lawrence wrote:

    > elliptic1@gmail.com wrote:
    >> Hello,
    >> I have a wiki website built to be the first online database of
    >> graduate level example math problems and solutions.
    >> www.exampleproblems.com. My site traffic is growing steadily, but if
    >> you look at my logs (bottom of the menu on the left) about 44% of the
    >> kb traffic is due to the country of Moldova. Also, my top referring
    >> sites (about 20) are porn sites. I went to those sites and couldn't
    >> find my link anywhere. Also, I had to delete a few posts that seemed to
    >> be just a bunch of links to other sites to all topics. How are all
    >> these things related and is my hosting linux server in trouble?
    >
    > You are a math type, so you ought to understand this: your sample is too
    > low to draw any conclusions from. You have something around 5,000
    > visitors a month: if 44% are Moldovians when that reaches 5,000 per day,
    > THEN you'd have a curious situation. Right now, it's meaningless and
    > either due to some language quirk as someone else guessed or is just a
    > silly coincidence perhaps flavored by some Moldovian sending your link
    > to a few dozen friends.

    However, since it is a wiki, he should check to see if it is being used as
    a scratch pad by credit card thieves.

    One message forum I read had this as a problem for a while, (and is why
    post editing is disabled), early each morning a set of posts would show up
    and be removed about ten minutes later. When the admin noticed this in
    the logs, he stayed up and watched as posts full of CC numbers went up,
    were downloaded by several people, then were removed to hide the evidence. 

    -- 
				Phoenix
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