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<node id="350754" title="&quot;freak&quot; and recent threads" created="2004-05-05 08:57:53" updated="2005-08-10 11:45:09">
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monkdiscuss</type>
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merlyn</author>
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I'm seeing a pattern here:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;[id://350740]
&lt;li&gt;[id://350439]
&lt;li&gt;[id://350408]
&lt;li&gt;[id://350285]
&lt;li&gt;[id://350169]
&lt;li&gt;[id://348137]
&lt;li&gt;[id://347996]
&lt;li&gt;[id://347939]
&lt;/ul&gt;
While any single question taken alone might be innocent enough... together these appear to be some attempt at fraud, perhaps on a pay-per-click system somewhere.
&lt;p&gt;
I'd be cautious about answering these or any future question from [id://317556].  Unless the answers are either [id://350755|funny] or [id://350748|distracting]. {grin}
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&lt;p&gt;-- [http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/|Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker]
&lt;br&gt;
Be sure to read [id://205373|my standard disclaimer] if this is a reply.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;hr&gt;&lt;b&gt;update:&lt;/b&gt; My spider sense was tingling at the right time: In [id://351850], [id://317556] writes:
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;
i want to build a bot that will "earn" on popups.  and now can somebody please answer my question.
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
I think the phrase here is "busted!".</field>
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