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apollyon888

Up and Running

Feb 11, 2006 03:47

I finally finished a basic layout that I am pleased with for my website, so its main components are now accessible from http://www.immortalcuriosity.com/.
I don't have a whole lot of content yet, as the layout itself took some doing. I do have my junior and senior essays up, however, as well as a few links to demonstrate the sections. I will be ( Read more... )

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thedelographer February 11 2006, 16:09:41 UTC

I use Internet Explorer, and I went to the site.

Qualified apollyon888 February 11 2006, 17:41:13 UTC

Do as you will. But seriously, all the formatting will be off in IE. I have already checked it. IE does not know how to handle XHTML properly. You might not have seen this clearly if you just went to the main page. Try going into the Writings section and open one of the essays and you will see what I mean.

Re: Qualified thedelographer February 11 2006, 21:35:21 UTC

Oh, I saw. But making your page look pretty by switching to another browser isn't on my list of priorities. I can see the content either way.

socraticfuries February 12 2006, 20:29:16 UTC

guestbooks are fodder for 419 lads

apollyon888 February 13 2006, 00:24:17 UTC

You are one for strangely pointless replies, aren't you? But still: what is a "419 lad" exactly? Also, I am the moderator of any posts to the guestbook, so I decide whether they get published or not, if you were referring to some sort of spamming thing.

Never mind apollyon888 February 13 2006, 00:29:13 UTC

I looked it up, as I should have before. So "419" refers to the section of Nigerian Criminal Code that Nigerian online scammers violate, etc. Which you would know about, since you are presently obsessed with them ;-) But now that I know what they are, I still don't understand your comment. Why would a guestbook be of assistance to such a scammer?

Re: Never mind socraticfuries February 13 2006, 06:10:10 UTC

They harvest email addresses from guestbooks--this is one of the biggest sources of potential victims. Do a goggle search for "Guestbook + Guyman". You will find thousands upon thousands of guestbooks tagged by lads as if they were dogs tagging fire hydrants. They will say something like" "I dey land here ooooooooooooo guyman keep offooooooooooo mugu@guyman.com"

THis means that they have assembled the variosu email addresses contained in that address book, and that soon, all of those people whose email is posted will win lotteries, be offered once in a lifetime business opportunities, be offered cell phones at amazingly low prices, et cetera.

So, I recceomend that if you have a guestbook, you make sure that the email addresses of the posters are kept private.

I sign guestbooks all the time with my baiting email address, and today, (sunday) I got over 100 emails from scammers. Little do they know....