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Originally Posted by Undertoad
A look at the "Entertainment" forum, where the spammers are for some reason directed, shows that they are at least temporarily confused by the situation. There has been nothing for the last few days, which is unusual.
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I'd say "temporary" confusion is very promising, for several reasons... possibly the spammers are like migrant workers, drifting through, with no orgazational structure from which to "learn" from their "experiences" - they meet a dead-end and just move on,
or if there is a "central control" of some kind, for some faction of them, issuing orders, or at least a network of mutual advice/strategy or something, then you might just get on a "no call list" for being not worth the effort. The best way to leverage this, I'd imagine, is by having a unique strategy. Whatever ability to adapt they have, by whatever mechanism, would be, I'm sure, applied towards common, widespread anti-spam techniques, not local anomolies devised by one web site. Then again, maybe each spammer works out his own game plan. But I think "temporrary confusion" is probably not likely to resolve itself, unless the blood here is particularly tasty compared to easier marks.