[MR] Looks like we got us a bot.

[Gina Shelley]

Well, well, well. Lookie here what I found, y'all:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/davical/dev/1969?page=last

Scroll down. Pay attention to the names and what the posters are discussing.

I was wondering why someone from another country would take an old post I'd written from February, copy it into a new post, add their own name and contact info along with the address for a webste, and then post it as their own here. New type of forum spam I hadn't heard of before. 

Seems a little dumb to do it this way, since it's bound to be discovered quickly. Like this was. 

Anyways, a little archive search on this poster has revealed pretty much nothing. This is apparently their second post, the first being something about dairy legislation. 

So...not sure who (if anyone) is in charge of these things on our Tavern, here, but for what it's worth, this poster, one kristen.eisenberg at yahoo.com, is a bot. 

Good to know this is going on. It's like an arms race with these cockroaches. 

Dulcy



> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 05:19:41 -0700
> From: kristen.eisenberg at yahoo.com
> To: atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: [MR] Fwd: [Bryn-gwlad] In Nature today - Did Vikings navigate by	polarized light?
> 
> What a fascinating article! Thanks for sharing! It sounds like a plausable theory. I like these Nature articles that show up here every now and then. I should probably get that magazine. 
> 
> I would be interested in knowing more about these studies they did. For instance, who were the test subjects? Saying "Vikings couldn't tell what direction the sun is by the way a piece of calcite reacts to light because our test subjects couldn't" is not a reasonable assumption. That's like saying "The Polynesians couldn't navigate by looking at the splash patterns of waves on their canoes because nobody else can, either." Nobody else could because nobody else could, if that makes sense. I don't think it's unreasonable to consider that the Vikings developed a talent to help them navigate, using what was available to them, just as the Polynesians did. 
> 
> Also, you can too use a polarizer in overcast conditions. You can use a polarizer in any condition where light's hitting it. I wear sunglasses all the time, overcast or no. I know from polarizers. Although even I don't know how to pinpoint light direction using one. 
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't think anyone is going to find a piece of calcite in a shipwreck or even a land burial. Calcite dissolves in water. Which is too bad, because it would be really cool to be able to prove this theory. 
> 
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