[IUG] spam in the suggestion box

["Sue E Boggs" <boggs at ups dot edu>]

Hi,

 

I'm curious if anyone else has been getting something like this. I check
the suggestion box via character based every day after initializing the
backup tape and for the past month every day there has been what I've
taken to calling "Haiku spam" (actually I did some research and realize
it is more properly termed sestet spam). Here was yesterdays:

 

001 02:25PM 05-07-08 Terminal 800

     MobiDick

     YbdmjAoAupdy

     uSXHTmFMVGCJbjUnGK

     tkusuDyDHvjBnnm

     mwEvtrWerzTiZpRkWJo

     MobiDick

 

It always has the same word (different each day) as the first and last
line and four lines of nonsense in between. It is too regular to be
random, it seems to me. I've checked the non-local access attempts
allowed for around the time period of the message and haven't seen a
consistent IP it is coming from. It also isn't consistent in time. It
has run the gambit from early morning to late at night. It isn't filling
up the suggestion box or anything (if it wasn't for this we'd never get
a suggestion) but it is getting a bit annoying to have to remove
everyday.

 

Sue

 

Sue Boggs
Cataloging & Library Technician
Technical Services
Library
University of Puget Sound
1500 N. Warner St. #1021
Tacoma, WA 98416-1021

(253) 879-2667
boggs at ups dot edu

 

 

 



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