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#301822 - 01/09/2007 12:34 empegbbs mirror???
LittleBlueThing
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Registered: 11/01/2002
Posts: 612
Loc: Reading, UK
What's this all about then?

http://www.tvby.cn/smp/h/?empeg_general

Just came across it via Google and wondered....
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#301823 - 01/09/2007 20:50 Re: empegbbs mirror??? [Re: LittleBlueThing]
drakino
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Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 7868
Odd, never seen that before. Might explain the higher then normal spidering requests. I wonder why someone in China would want to mirror this without translation.

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#301824 - 03/09/2007 22:20 Re: empegbbs mirror??? [Re: drakino]
schofiel
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Registered: 25/06/1999
Posts: 2993
Loc: Wareham, Dorset, UK
What is the point of an English language mirror of this board? I'm inclined to ask if it's possible to block it. Pointless.
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#301825 - 03/09/2007 22:24 Re: empegbbs mirror??? [Re: schofiel]
andy
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Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5916
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
The point is normally that the person mirroring it adds some adverts above and below it and makes some cash out of other people efforts. In this case I am guessing it is a work in progress, due to the lack of ads. It happens a lot to various newsgroups and forums.
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#301826 - 04/09/2007 00:29 Re: empegbbs mirror??? [Re: andy]
drakino
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Registered: 08/06/1999
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Thinking about it more, it probably explains some of the spam threads that we have seen here. I saw an interesting addon for another board in action today that tries to stop spam by preventing URLs, either properly put in with [url] tags or just typed out until the user is 7 days old or has 10 posts. I might look at doing that on the 7.x boards.

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#301827 - 04/09/2007 06:52 Re: empegbbs mirror??? [Re: drakino]
Roger
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Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
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I might look at doing that on the 7.x boards.


I'm using Akismet on my website to stop comment spam. Seems to work quite well.
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#301828 - 01/10/2007 11:46 Re: empegbbs mirror??? [Re: LittleBlueThing]
g_attrill
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Registered: 14/04/2002
Posts: 1172
Loc: Hants, UK
I saw this article and it reminded me of the site mentioned in this thread.

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