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This makes the second time this has happened so I thought I'd make a post warning you guys.
The first time, I didn't understand what was going on; I just thought AOL was having a weird hiccup. But tonight, my interlocuter figured out what was going on and clued me in.
Apparently there is a bot that matches two people who have recently posted on lj and opens an IM window between them. The first time this happened the IM was from DireDoomSalmon and tonight it was from TyrannicalSalmon. The bot also sends some pretty nasty messages as the person to whom I was actually IM-ing believed I had just IM-ed hir a racial epithet.
So, do not open any IMs from any incarnation of Salmon.
Gah, why is the internet so freaking weird sometimes? What is the purpose of such a bot?
The first time, I didn't understand what was going on; I just thought AOL was having a weird hiccup. But tonight, my interlocuter figured out what was going on and clued me in.
Apparently there is a bot that matches two people who have recently posted on lj and opens an IM window between them. The first time this happened the IM was from DireDoomSalmon and tonight it was from TyrannicalSalmon. The bot also sends some pretty nasty messages as the person to whom I was actually IM-ing believed I had just IM-ed hir a racial epithet.
So, do not open any IMs from any incarnation of Salmon.
Gah, why is the internet so freaking weird sometimes? What is the purpose of such a bot?