Comments on: Listen Up!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:15:50 +0000

There’s a sizable Russian community in the San Francisco area, and not all of them are nice people. We would go up when I was at the Defense Language Institute at Monterey, and there were some “interesting” times. There was a good-sized KGB group among them and the Russian “mafia” is an amalgam of KGB and criminals.

They apparently are hoping to find out, Ellroon. The number of Russian sites I would click on is extremely limited because of the prevalence of hackers in Russia. Bulgaria is worse, but only for Apple users.

By: ellroon

ellroon — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:56:41 +0000

I haven’t gotten hair removal stuff but heaps of porn, escort services, and pharmaceuticals… What kind of woman do they think I am?

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:40:55 +0000

The Russians get nervous? Funny, it's the other way around with me, when the Russians are around I get nervous. Won't /can't comment further, other than that I'm not talking about blog presence of Russians but rather physical presence of said Russians...

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:10:40 +0000

I occasionally use Cyrillic so it shows up in their search engines. I’ve had a few Russians comment, but they get nervous and don’t hang around.

I have had a few hits from Chinese servers, but the links were in English. That’s kind of odd because most times when I check the Great Firewall my site is blocked.

I’m aware you do it because I can’t comment when it happens. I don’t blame you, I’m getting hit again after a couple of months of quiet.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:56:08 +0000

So you get the Rusky spam? I get the Chinese spam — comments that are nothing but links to Chinese sites.

And yeah, I get sick of deleting them too. When it gets really bad I turn off the anonymous commenting feature in blogger. That usually stops’em. But occasionally someone manages to keep a Blogger account long enough to post some spam anyhow. Sigh.