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09 February 2007

Why is Texas A&M hosting a Google spammer? ccag.tamu.edu/web/?Foo/ is a page full of random spamlinks that reloads based on the keyword replacing Foo. There's no point linking to it from here: The page is 403 Forbidden unless the referrer is Google or certain other linkspammers (try getting there from the fourth link here). The page is footnoted, © PharmDigest Inc. All rights reserved. Is this really the best way to raise money in an era of research cuts?

post by: ardgedee at: 11:03 | 6 comments

Some useful links: Report fraud, waste, and abuse of TAMU resources and Reporting inappropriate use of TAMU computing resources

posted by ardgedee 09 February | 11:24

Huh? Did you post this in the correct universe?

posted by mischief 09 February | 12:27

The reason is that Texas A&M is run by Aggies.

\m/

posted by mudpuppie 09 February | 14:10

It could be a honeypot or something for researching spam harvesters and bots.

posted by loquacious 09 February | 15:17

That page no longer resolves. Clearly the work of nefarious t-sips.

posted by brainwidth 09 February | 21:37

Something identical here.

The phrase "PharmDigest" seems to have associations with somebody at UT, but almost all other results other than this thread are erased at Google. That's the mark of a cleansed result table.

posted by stilicho 10 February | 01:34

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