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Story: 'Spim' threat hovers on horizon

Posted by: Chuck Hoffmann (Friday 11 June 2004, 3:20 PM)

One would have to define "disruption" regarding commercial messages on free chat services. For example, the AOL Instant Messenger service public chatrooms are now all but unusable due to the proliferation of 'bots that post solicitations for various pornographic Web sites. Quite often there are 10 or more 'bots in a chat room, and it is not unusual for the 'bots to outnumber the human chatters at times.