1 I can't help visiting sites where people say "don't visit this site".  I don't know if it's human nature, but it's certainly my nature.  To be safe, I use a perl script (Pixy loves perl, but does not know it yet) to grab it as a txt file in case there is something malicious going on.  In this case, there wasn't.  It's just a Russian front company peddling whatever they are peddling, and hiding this fact behind the title page:

"BlackSEO Anti-Spam Administration notice: We have received a number of complaints on the spam. Blackseo.com is online since October 2005 and it is the largest private SEO related webmaster forum in Russia with over 900 webmasters registered and more than 47000 posts. There are no child porno or credit card fraud related discussions on Blackseo.com. We do not offer any illegal services."

My guess would be that they are lying.  Not sure how to catch them though.

2 If you fixed all the problems with Perl, you'd end up with Python (or at least Ruby).  I saved myself the time and just switched languages.

3 Never heard of Ruby, but Python is the bastard son of perl.  It's too much in love with the CPU for my needs.

4 I should add that I'm not being confrontational here.  I'm just a staunch supporter of perl and c (without the evil ++ if I can help it).  It's probably because those are the two languages I find it easiest to think in, not because they are the best languages.

Scratch that.  They ARE the best languages.

5 Quote: "If you fixed all the problems with Perl, you'd end up with Python (or at least Ruby)." Them's fighting words. Unfortunately, the Python warriors were late getting to the fight because someone left a tab character out of the instructions, and the Ruby team got confused by the Unicode characters, so Perl won by default. :-) -j

6 Yeah, guys, you really think this is true? If they would spam themselfs like a CP,fraud etc company, why should they post this "anti-spam" message and close their forums? now their domain got suspended. Belive me, if someone would spam your forum like blakseo's, you would be closed even faster... But your forum isnt commercial, so no one needs it.

7 With a name like "blackseo.com"?  Registered out of Russia?

You expect me to be surprised or something?

It could be that someone decided to take out a competitor or something like that, yes.  If that is true, then I apologise, and I hope they get their domain back.

8 Looks like although this person was maybe not the most ethical in the world, the email may have been sent purposefully to get him shut down. See: http://www.happyhacker.org/sucks/index.shtml

9 Ah, thanks.

I can't be too sorry that a bunch of forum spammers got shut down, given the amount of time I've had to spend cleaning up after them.  But I still don't approve of the method.