On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Johannes Bauer wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp schrieb: > > Some @(*#$ idiot decided to write his own scraper and generated to > > many errors that the log partition ran full. > I don't get it. As English is not my mother tounge, I even ran "scraper" > through a dictionary. Among the exactly 50 translations of which it can > mean in German (http://www.dict.cc/?s=scraper) there is not a single one > which would even remotely make sense. Would you mind explain what > happened there?
As in a device to remove frost from car windows or peeling paint from structures. In this case probably to "remove" e-mail addresses from mailing list archive web sites to add to a spammers database. The phrase scraping the bottom of the barrel also seems to apply well to that sort of activity. -Jed _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
