strathspey@strathspey.org:61061

Anselm Lingnau

ADMINISTRIVIA: Weird my.strathspey accounts

June 27, 2011, 7:52 p.m. (Message 61061)

IMPORTANT: I recently reviewed the user database for the Strathspey system, 
and there is a weird multitude of accounts, with very long (mostly) Google 
Mail addresses, whose first and last names are identical nonsense words. I 
strongly suspect that these have been registered by clever people with a view 
to submitting comment spam (of which rather a lot seems to be reaching me 
these days via the database comment system). This of course is an exercise in 
futility since there is no place on Strathspey, for the time being, where one 
might actually submit comments that other people (or, more importantly, 
Google's spider) could see.

Listen up, people: If you have registered an account where the first and last 
names are identical, you have three days (i.e., until Thursday) to convince me 
that you're a real person (for all I know your real name might be »Humbert 
Humbert«, although the accounts in the database refer to monikers such as 
»Himibliseem Himibliseem«, which strangely enough doesn't seem to go that well 
with a .pl e-mail address). Otherwise your account will be summarily REMOVED.

Anselm
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