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Notes from Notchcode


6.15.2007

Sally Kraus, the form-filling internet robot

To the real Sally Kraus: there's a bot programmer out there who owes you an apology. Especially if you really have the phone number 781-658-2687, and live in Boston. Because that programmer is using that info on a bot that (after a quick Google search confirmed) is filling out comment forms on everything from my site to an arm wrestlers' league message board.

In a way it is funny, and in another more pragmatic way it gets in the way of my business. It takes up time and attention, and the only way around it (for now) is if I put in one of those nasty image-based word/letter combinations that a commenter has to enter before the post gets accepted. Which would make it harder for a genuine commenter to post as well... so, not for me.

To the owner of the Sally Kraus bot: ok, we get it. It works. It posts really inane comments on message boards and comment pages. Comments like "Your site is very useful". So you can call it home, turn it off, and stop. Go back to your junior high school social studies homework, or whatever you are supposed to be doing.


cheers,


Alan

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