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Russian Astro-spam?

Started by TLF · 10 months ago

This is fascinating. A co-blogger on my other blog did a very short post about the Russia-Georgia conflict. Within a few hours, we got 11 comments, not obviously spam, from different IP addresses, all of them pro-Russian. And, it should be noted, my other blog gets even less traffic than ... Continue reading »

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McSimKammerer
11 months ago

Your ironical style looking beautiful when we speak about thousands of killed people :(

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McSimKammerer
11 months ago

are you consider this pic very funny? a?
[img]http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/27/yaonya.7/0_147c4_9aea32b4_L.jpg[/img]

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dimitris
11 months ago

I think our Russian friend answered Tim's question.

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Jerry Brito
11 months ago

From the New York Times story on the conflict:

Neither side showed any indication of backing down. Mr. Putin of Russia declared that “war has started,” and Mr. Saakashvili accused Russia of a “well-planned invasion” and mobilized Georgia’s military reserves. There were signs as well of a cyberwarfare campaign, as Georgian government Web sites were crashing intermittently during the day.

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Jim Harper
11 months ago

But here's a post on WashingtonWatch.com about that conflict that hasn't gotten any comments.

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Gary McGath
10 months ago

A fourth possibility: One site picked up your post, and mentioned it to a readership which either is fairly large or particularly inclined to post comments. (Rather unintelligent comments, if McSim is an example.)

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