#Wingnut Gets Its First Spam Robot (July 16, 2003)

[ChrisReid]

At 1:11 AM Pacific this morning #Wingnut got its very first spam bot. Apparently hobastankop had pictures of his girlfriend to show everyone. You know you've hit the big time when your've come this far. As we do our best to make sure Mr. hobastankop never connects to a port at wcnews.com again, come on by and join the fun. If you've never been to our irc chat channel before, you can use our simplified Java chat client to learn the ropes here. #Wingnut is where we'll be hosting our Birthday Party next month.

[01:11] * hobastankop (o1l11o86g9@211.24.43.186) has joined #wingnut
[01:11] hobastankop> See My Girlfriend Picture http://www
[01:11] * hobastankop (o1l11o86g9@211.24.43.186) has left #wingnut
[01:11] ChrisReid> wow
[01:11] SkyFlyer> oh god
[01:11] TC> wow, our first spammer
[01:11] TC> neat
[01:11] ChrisReid> is that our first spam on irc.wcnews.com?
[01:11] TC> yeah
[01:11] ChrisReid> wow, great
[01:11] TC> that deserves a news update

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Original update published on July 16, 2003