On Thursday 07 October 2004 18:14, Jed Rothwell wrote: > It appears that someone is going around buying up old, defunct academic > conference web sites and holding them for ransom, by advertising > pornographic products on them. See, for example: > > ICCF10 conference > > http://www.iccf10.org/ > > Robotics 2000 and Space 2000 conference. Albuquerque, NM, USA, February 28 > - March 2, 2000 > > http://www.spaceandrobotics.org/ > > This scheme will not work because no one cares about an academic conference > after it is over. > > - Jed
took a look at the two in your letter Jed. One of them, the space and robots one, is just plain sillyness, a rip off on the word 'porn'. It contains no more porn than the easter bunny, but the idea of speculating in old unwanted sites is still noted. The iccf10 site is of a more sinister nature however, but the intent on that site seems to be drug pushing instead of porn. Standing Bear
