Re: Are the Moldovians math freaks?

From: Tony Lawrence (foo_at_pcunix.com)
Date: 06/25/05 

Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 08:00:40 -0400

Rick Pikul wrote:
> 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.
>

Now that's something I haven't seen yet. I see the porn site links (and
have code in posting scripts that prevents most of that), but I haven't
seen CC posts. Oh well, at least it should be easy enough to filter
that out. 

-- 
Tony Lawrence
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