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Back In Black...coffee that is. It is another classic mongo sized issue of sexswap new! Thank you to all who have contributed and emailed in this week with tricks, scripts, knowledge, and old fashioned BS and opinions which should be all 'taken with a bag of salt". There are almost too many things to mention this week so I will tease you with just a couple. Mike has written in with an awesome section on how he became an adult webmater. It is an awesome "HOW TO" break into this business. I especially enjoyed how he made his own content. I am always wondered "how do you go about getting gals and guys to pose for pics" and "how much does it cost". This is a great read even if you are an old pro. One other section I really enjoyed was from Craig the Programmer on "what really happens to apache during a brute force attack". This is a doctorial thesis level treatise on the subject. Most of it flew way over my head =) but it was still highly informational and jam packed with rare details. HEY! If you have ideas or thoughts or arguements on any or all subjects covered in SexSwap new, feel free to drop me and email and I'll include your stories in future issues -> andy@lips.com

This week I have a story or two of my own. Have you ever heard of IM information bots? I hadn't. In the past, we have talked about chat bots. This takes it one step further where you give away some sort of content with a BOT but slide into a little add or two with the content. More on this below.

on with the show

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ANOTHER MAJOR SEARCH ENGINE BITES THE DUST from Greg B
news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8408763.html

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PAYPAL READIES FOR IPO - COMPETITION NEAR from Richard
www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,36560,FF.html?ref=cnet

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FLASH VIRUS FOUND
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Articleshow.asp?art_id=801950744

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IM SOFT SELLING INFO BOTS
Here is an idea we have talked about before that is slowly changing and this I find interesting and may be a new method no porn site and few mainstream sites have tried for traffic and income. You can program a chat bot to respond to people on ICQ. A few months ago I showed an example of MrXTC's ICQ chat bot 'BadBunny' who would talk back dirty to me :) I see BadBunny is offline now but you might catch her online sometime with ICQ # 13717983. In the following article in this month's Business 2.0 page 98 Feb2000 (not on their website et), they talk about a new software product and idea emerging. Why not deliver "Content" through IMs? Here is an example....like BadBunny, I some day soon have an ICQ bud called "WeatherBunny". I send WB a quick IM in the morning "Hi WeatherBun, what's up today?". Weather Bunny writes back: "Hi sex god Guru-O-Gif, the weather for 91784 is hot and sunny with a temp of 95F. PS buy suntan lotion at http:www.suntanlotion.com".

I get a little content that I want and FAST and the price I pay is a tagline ad. Pretty sweet if you ask me. Subtle and innovative. The sky is the limit right now on what could be done with this. I can think of a few examples of the top of my head

BEST PRICE IM BOT
here could be a bot that is specialized to find the lowest price for a product line...maybe cars...maybe computer parts like pricewatch
"where can I get the lowest price on a Kia Sophia"
"andy, try Big Jimmy's House of imports at www.bigjmmyskia.com"

MOVIE IM BOT
tell me where locally I can go to a movie
"Where is lord of the rings playing in my area"
"Guf Gurur, that would be Edwards Cineplex at the Mills"

GIFT BOT
"there are 7 days til my sister's birthday, where can I find a gift for under $75"
"andy, try www.sharperimage.com

I think the technical trouble will be in the logic algorithms. Do you use Ask Jeeve's? Like that must be the most painful search engine on earth and this is no different. Let me ask Jeeve's my Kia Sophia Question

Check out answer #1 ...what a piece of crap =)
www.ask.com/main/askjeeves.asp?ask=where+can+I+get+the+lowest+price+on+a+Kia+Sophia&o=0

You may find my search results helpful:
The Malaysian Economist on Micro ecomony in Malaysia ... Micro Economy Strategy High tariff and import restriction help keep car price high www.geocities.com/WallStreet/Exchange/1366/micro.html

and this is why people use google and not ask jeeves =) Now I am trying to think of porn applications for this new IM technology but it does not seem as easy. Here are some quick thoughts.
PRICE SHOPPING
"where can I find the pay site with lowest monthly fees?"
FREE PIC SEARCH
"Where can I find free pics on Chloe?"
you might be able to use it like a TGP...the bot gives the location of a few pics but those pages are loaded with join ads.

Here is a site that is working on this technology as we speak
www.activebuddy.com

examples of a couple sites using this new idea
help.activebuddy.com/lindsaybuddy/intro.shtml
www.smarterchild.com

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GOOGLE CUSTOM SEARCH PORTAL IDEA
Here is something I was thinking about and was going to try and code and then I went to google and found out that they actually allow it and will give you the code instantly. I love using the google search engine on the sexswap trix archive and my cobralads site. You can see the search box here at the top of the yellow area
trix.sexswap.com

google stays fairly up to date...at most it might be 5-6 weeks behind in archiving which is not too bad for a modern engine. What I wanted to do next is try and create my own portal engine. I thought "why don't I hack this code and make a "cobra portal search engine" which the 20 big cobra sites. I started to look at the code and get a small headache and then WOW...here it is already at google!
www.google.com/services/free.html
log in and then look at the URL area...seperate MULTIPLE DOMAINS with a semi colon....that is the only trick. You can then past the search on your pages. You can even hack it out a bit and repostion things. Here is an example of a multi domain search, almost creating your own mini targetted portal search engine...I have added 6 sites to the search box at the top of the page
www.cobralads.com/

How does this relate to your sites? Well, if you have 20 porn sites or mainstream sites...this is one way to try and keep people on your sites and ot leaving. AND it helps them better find what they are looking for on your sites. Add your 20 sites and create your own search engine with results only on your sites and you will move traffic around and have additional chances at the sale. At the same time, you help people find stuff on your sites in a quicker more efficient matter. Let me know what you think

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MORE GOOGLE NEWS - SMELLS OF IPO
Feb Business2 just wrote a story on google hiring some harvard MBA chick, Sheryl Sandberg, as the new general manager of business units. Google also has 30 job's availabel postings on their site and are seeking a Chief Financial Officer which is heavy indication that they are going to IPO. They are still in the black and run the show with a staff of 280 which seems a little large but not crazy. Let me see if I can find those job postings...they get over 500 resumes a day! Hey! did you know there was a google store? I had no idea...and they have great tie die 70's shirts! no way.
www.googlestore.com/
ok, found the jobs...look, you get to play roller hocket in the google parking lot =)
www.google.com/jobs/index.html

If google does IPO, I wold have to think it will be HUGE...just like I think the PAYPAL IPO will be huge since these are some of the rare dot com true winners who made money before going to market.

I think tech companies who seek outside corporate "HEAVIES" need to develop a TEST to insure this harvard MBA's know what the hell they are doing. Here is a freebies for all the tech sites hiring big wigs and need to filter out he internet illiterate

Guru-O-Gifs
You Better Know Your Ass From a Hole In the Ground
CORPORATE HEAVY HIRING 5 QUESTION SIMPLE TECH TEST

1. name 3 flavors of linux?
BONUS POINTS if redhat is not one of the four

2. what is a T1?
BONUS POINTS if they can lightly explain
point to point
frame
fractional

3. What is a ping?
BONUS POINTS
what is a traceroute and what is the unix or even dos command to ping and trace foo.com?

4. What does an overclocker do?
BONUS POINTS
what is approximately the fastes IBM cpu and AMD cpu currently availble?

5. Have you ever bought anything from Amazon, Ebay, or Priceline?
they should have bought at least one thing from all three.
BONUS POINTS
when was the last time you shopped online? If it was 2 weeks or less...bonus

that should seperate the clueless from the somewhat plugged in :)

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BUSINESS 2.0
Hey! If you don't get Business2.0, you should :) With IndustryStandard gone, it is the best game in town for the cool tech news. The two stories above that I found interesting were both in this months issue.
www.timeinc.net/subs/redirect/b2/ofie_header.html

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GROUND BREAKING DOMAIN NAME APPEAL CASE from Patent Lawyer Mike
news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8105325.html
investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8092469-0.html

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BAG OF SALT TABLE O' TRIX CONTENT

DELL UPGRADE PATH WITH POWERLEAP TULATIN 1.2gig from Bruce
BRUTE FORCE ATTACKS IDEAS AND THOUGHTS from Darren
SECURITY EXPLOIT PROBE from Delay
WHAT HAPPENS TO APACHE DURING A BRUTE FORCE ATTACK from Craig
BUYING ADULT BANNER SPACE from Brien
YAHOO DOES CHARGE RECURRING NOW from Natalia
NMAP SECURITY SCANNER from SignGuy
RETINA from Richard
INVISIBLE WEBSITES
FRAMELESS JAVA POP UP WINDOW from Holger
SO YOU WANT TO BE AN AMATEUR ADULT WEBMASTER from Mike
MAKING AN WEBMASTER EMAIL LIST from Steve
ALTA VISTA USES DEFAULT 'OR' IN SEARCHES fom Steve
HUNTING FOR STATS from Steve

MORE NEWS
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HOMESTORE ADMITS OVERSTATING AD REVENUE - NO GUFF
www.internetweek.com/story/INW20020103S0005

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AMAZON BIG AND GETTING BIGGER
www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/15619.html
listen to these numbers
Specialty gifts shot up 198 percent during the week ending December 23rd.
50% of last minute orders were sent directly to receivers
60% of these were gift wrapped.

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ONLINE GROCERY RECOVERING from Richard
www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/15620.html

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FED SEE RECOVERY FURTHER OUT - MAYBE RATE CUT from Richard
public.wsj.com/news/hmc/sb1010528067117407200.htm

SHAMELESS PLUGS - CAVEAT EMPTOR
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CASH CLUBHOUSE
A fresh new partnership program with several niches to promote.
www.cashclubhouse.com
kemp@potds.com

GAY TRAFFIC PROFIT CENTER
Convert your gay traffic to a great income stream. Convertes well
www.gaypaycheck.com
webmaster@gaypaycheck.com

ESCORT SITE FOR SALE
perfect marketing tool for an escort service
www.escortreviews.net
poshspicelv@worldnet.att.net

SOFTWARE HARDWARE
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MCAFEE CLAIMS IMPROVED VIRUS SCAN ONLINE from Guru-O-Gif
www.mcafee.com/default.asp
well I don't know whethere to believe them or not. I was very sad with the difficulty of installing and uninstalling the old one and then have it NOT catch email viruses as well! Here is what they claim
* Simplified Installation and Configuration
* Improved Scanning
* Scan online or offline
* Faster, smarter Heuristic* scan engine
* Compatible with Windows XP
* Superior Ease of Use

I haven't tried the upgrade but might one time in the future.

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45 VOLT CAR BATTERIES COMING SOON from Richard
www.msnbc.com/news/674071.asp?0dm=H257B

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DELL UPGRADE PATH WITH POWERLEAP TULATIN 1.2gig from Bruce
Bruce writes

Well the Powerleap Tualatin Celeron 1.2 GHz finally arrived.
www.powerleap.com/Products/iP3T.htm

It took under five minutes to install, and that includes disconnecting my box, opening, and removing the old PIII-450. So far so good. Here is a summary of 3DMark2001 results:

Model: Dell XPS-T450
Mobo: Intel SE440BX-3
PIII 450, Voodoo 3000 3dfx: 601
PIII 450, ASUS V7700 Ti Deluxe ( Geforce 2 GTS ): 1450
Powerleap Tualatin Celeron 1.2 GHz, ASUS V7700: 2635

I'll have to experiment a bit more to get a sense of how much faster things are. Also note that I returned my "Pure" VGA card in exchange for the Deluxe version, 3D glasses and all. I wanted the Deluxe because it has video in. I can plug my analogue video recorder directly into the card for some nice video capturing without the expense of a digital video camera

Dell Dimension Upgrade FAQ
www.roberthancock.com/dell/

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BRUTE FORCE ATTACKS IDEAS AND THOUGHTS from Darren
Darren writes:
this Brute forcing topic is interesting! :)
Brute forcing has been going on for several years
now...why so long for webmasters to pick up on the
fact people are constantly trying to break into their
site?

Stephan's idea of submitting to password sites is a
good one. I don't doubt there are people making money
out there doing it. But they are not gonna tell you
how they are doing it. :)) But we have directed tons
of password traffic to front pages, signup pages etc.
on amateur sites that were doing 1:200 conversions,
and password traffic converts SHIT! People looking for
free passwords are not going to pay for it!

As for having a hidden area so it cannot be brute
forced, we have used perl scripts to hide our members
areas and it works pretty good. Until the perl script
gets attacked, then you see 50.00 + server loads. It
is nasty. I have not seen a solution to this, although
I am sure php would be better then perl. We just leave
our members areas URL public, let the crackers go at
it. They will learn what a 403 error is sooner or
later.

As for brute force programs shutting off, some will
keep going after a valid login, some will stop. It
depends how you configure them, or if they were coded
with an option to stop or keep going. Most password
'crackers' (script kiddies) will keep the program
running. If you can catch a crack in progress and all
of the sudden it stops on the username 'alice' then
you know that they found a valid login and the program
stopped. But, like I said, most crackers will let it
run on so you can't tell.

Iprotect kicks ass, and there is not one program out
there that can touch it. It is compiled into Apache
and uses little to no overhead. It is well worth the
money, you can earn it back if you are clever.
Unfortunately your host has to install it. It costs a
lot. And a lot of hosting companies will not use it as
they make a ton off of overages. If anyone is hosted
by a company that does not use this software, let me
know and I will set you up with us!
(darren_bsd@yahoo.com) A lot of big adult hosting
companies are not using this software (on purpose) and
it is a total disservice to their customers. We know
of a biggie that used it at one time and stopped using
it. Gee, wonder why? ;)

As for seeding passwords, read above, password traffic
is SHIT. But it can easily be done with iProt. Like
your guy said, they have been doing it for years now.
So have a lot of people. :)) But, believe it or not,
password sites have databases of rogue domains and
ip's that submit fake sites, or redirect traffic. I
have seen them, they are quite large. ha ha

I think if you did redirect the traffic intelligently
you could make money from it. I rank the traffic as
crappier the TGP traffic, though so you would have to
get a lot to profit from it. But, there are ways...you
just have to think outside the box. :) Traffic is
traffic...some just sucks worse then others. If you
can sell ice to Eskimos, you can convert password
traffic.

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SECURITY EXPLOIT PROBE from Delay
Delay writes:
I noticed you were having some security problems. I am not really an expert as far as your specific problem. I have found a fairly cool program which allows you to probe the holes in your system that a hacker might exploit. You can check out the URL. I believe they have a free version you can download but it is fairly complex to install and update (but hey its free), there is also a web version which costs around $100 per year.

WEB SAIMT
here is the url to web saint
www.wwdsi.com/index.html

I use the web version as it is suppose to stay up to date with all of the latest exploits... and hopefully it will keep me from getting hacked too easily. You might take a look... There are also similar programs to your script like tripwire... I think I will install your little script. It looks pretty cool and every little bit helps :-)

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WHAT HAPPENS TO APACHE DURING A BRUTE FORCE ATTACK from Craig
Craig the Programmer wrrites:
In response to this suggestion. I can't vouch for whether or not it is a
good money making idea....might be decent for making a few extra coins by
using popups for exit console programs....but personally I could see very
little profit coming out of the work in setting a cash in page up. If
someone has gone to the trouble to find a password site, they will more than
likely pass you by when they realize it's a fake. Might come in handy
though if instead of a payment page to instead use it as a way of fueling
traffic for a tgp....actually put some content on the hacked page and treat
that page like you normally would if it was a TGP...might be a potential way
of filtering horrible traffic for just awful traffic =)

However the biggest problem with the hacked passwords isn't the
bandwidth....it's the demand on the server. By default an apache server is
limited to 150 simultaneous connections. Without needing to make a source
adjustment and rebuilding the software you can increase this limit to 256 (I
think 1024 on Windows machines). The problem is that most brute force
programs use multiple connections sometimes to the extreme. Say the person
doing the hacking is doing 100 simultaneous attempts. Assuming there have
been no configuration changes from the default we have a number of problems

(Remember this is using default configs)

Apache only ever has 5 processes listening for activity to start. So now we
have the 100 connection attempts being logged
5 processes are now running, 95 are backed up
When maxed out apache starts increasing reserve processes (up to that 150
limit), starting at 1 and doubling in number each second....so when there's
a backlog the first second only 1 processes is added, then 2, then 4, etc up
to 32 processes per second

Getting back to the connections

95 connections are pending
6 connections, 94 pending
8 connections, 92 pending
12 connections, 88 pending
20 connections, 80 pending
36 connections, 64 pending
58 connections, 32 pending
90 connections, 0 pending

so now just to handle those initial 100 connections it takes about 8 seconds
(pending on if your server can keep up with the increases swiftly
enough)....Sounds easy enough...8 seconds isn't all that much. But it does
then create a backlog with other requests such as other people trying to
connect to the site....they need to wait at minimum those 8 seconds before
the page even starts getting downloaded.

Now the painful news.

1 -
The first major downfall....Keepalives ....an excellent configuration to use
to help conserve processing power and memory usage but is devastating when
getting hacked...keepalives basically reserve that process to the IP
currently connected to it for X amount of time...usually 15 seconds.

So now even if the hacker stops after those 100 attempts, no one can use the
100 processes now idle for 15 seconds...so new connections need to be
created for all new requests.

2 -
You would initially think...well 100 used connections isn't all that
bad...if I set the server to 256 that still allows another 156 people to
connect to the server...right?
Dead wrong. The reason for that is most browsers do simultaneous
downloadings....they download they HTML plus have separate connections to
download each image to be displayed in that HTML at the same time to help
decrease the delay on displaying the page...I'm not sure what the limit is
but I have seen Netscape 4.X browsers downloading as many as 25 items
simultaneously. Here's a simple way to see for yourself on a windows based
machine.

Reboot your system, open up an msdos prompt (start menu -> run -> command)
type: netstat -A
This will list all your current network connections, there will be a few
already in the list used for keeping the network usable on your system so
just ignore those.

now open up your browser and go to a website....a good example is
www.cnn.com as they display several graphics on their HTML pages
after the page is loaded go back to the msdos prompt
type: netstat -A

you will now see a considerable number of open connections...each of those
represent a connection that was made to cnn.com's webserver. Keep this in
mind as you read below.

Let's say very conservatively each HTML page has the user's browser create
only 5 connections...one for the HTML and a few graphical images...however
anything with thumbnail tables or even poorman sitemaps (having a jumble of
images meshed together to form one complete image instead of just that
singular image) can increase that number

Okay so 5 connections per user - 156/5 = 31 users with one free process
So now you're down to 31 people who can access the site simultaneously.
Then you have the keep alive issue again. If 5 users load one page each,
then 25 connections are tied up for 15 seconds (after the downloading is
complete). So if you have a large number of unique individuals you can run
out of connections very quickly. And that's just HTML pages....large
downloads (ex. movie clips) or slow connection users can tie the connections
up for a lot longer. This means now that the 100 connections consumed by
the hacker are wreaking havoc on your paying subscribers (or those going
through your free areas as potential customers) even if you're blocking
those connections either via 403s, redirects, etc.

And then what happens if you have multiple brute force programs on you?
Kiss your server connectivity goodbye to anyone legitimately trying to
connect to your website(s).

Then there is the suggestion about the sales pages, or pages to trick the
hackers into thinking they got access to the members area. If ever you
check out any of the password sites online you'll see a LOT of pay sites
actually use this trick...usually in cahoots with the administrator of that
password site. The pay sites will offer phony username/passwords, the
administrator then posts it on the password site pretending like it's a
legitimate hack (my oxymoron for the day) and then gets a kickback on any
signups. Personally I don't know if such a method works however it has been
around for years and it's possible it's been bled dry.

However if you do want to try that be sure you can take on the extra
traffic....I remember helping a company set up a few of these trick pages
and they had about 200,000 page hits within a few days. I don't know if
they got any sales or were able to put that traffic to any use however the
servers took a beating....they stayed online due to the preperatory measures
that were taken (btw if anyone is attempting to try this I strongly urge
them to use a BSD os as it is much more efficient on handling pure web
traffic than any other unix based os I have worked with). I think even with
a conservative page consiting of about 60k worth of HTML and graphics they
forked out about 12 GBits of data just on the crap traffic.

I'm not saying something like this is unprofitable....I honestly don't
know...but you need to be prepared for the additional strain on your
server(s) and I strongly discourage anyone who shares a server with others
to try this.

If anyone is seeking any further advice on the subject or require assistance
in developing something like this, they can contact me at
2bunnyhop@rogers.com

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BUYING ADULT BANNER SPACE from Brien
Brien writes
I was looking for places to buy hits. Got any suggestions? I'd like to test out some stuff and wanted to buy the hits for that. I'm not too fond of the search engine buying of hits.

Guru-O-Gif writes
It is very tough to buy hits and I have written about this in the past. Let me make up some numbers and give you an example. If I own a paysite that is making 1 cent for every 5 cent banners I can buy, would I now buy as many banners as I can? It is the laws of supply and demand and I would continue to buy banners at that rate until infinity since the more I buy the more I make. Therefore, most sites would buy the entire inventory a selling site has to offer. Now the next part of this is...who makes more money per hit? It is hard to say but I think to milk a hit to the maximum, you need 10+ paysites in your portfolio and some traffic trades and maybe even a mainstream site. This way you squeeze that one hit for every inch of life it has. You work every sale you can on it to make the most on the one hit. Therefore, some of the larger sites with these portfolios of paysites and mainstream and traffic trades might make 7 cents a click where you or I might make 5 cents. This means that they can bid advertising up to 6 cents. They would buy ALL ads for sale at 6 cents and they would make a net profit. We can only buy at 5 cents...if we now uy the ads selling at 6 cents, we lose money. If I am an ad seller, I am going to raise my rates as high as the market will bear and go with the buyer at 6 cents. Through normal market forces, most ads for sale are priced too high for 80% of buyer since 20% of buyer have found a way to milk that liitle extra out of an ad.

Now if you still want to try, the next problem is trying to find someone to sell. Most people ar tied into long term relationship deals at this point. You still may be able to buy ads on Persiankitty.com or maybe hitbox. I don't really know of other places with banners for sale right now...you will have to ask around. This is the reason I like the engines...you can control whay you bid and there are occasionally wierd words that are not bid up but the new problem is then....can I get enough traffic from obscure words etc.

If you do buy ads, once again the best thing is to test. See if you can buy $500 or less to run a test. If the site wants $5000 min. this is generally a risky test that could cost a chunk of change but some sellers only want to deal with larger buyers. Try to find one that will work with you to see if their traffic works for you.

anyone know of sites selling banner spots that are good to work with at this time? email me and I will add the list to next week letter andy@lips.com

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YAHOO DOES CHARGE RECURRING NOW from Natalia
Natalia writes
Yes, Yahoo makes the express fee RECURRENT. That's $600.00 a YEAR. And 200.00 for non-adult. I doubt it's worthwhile... especially as I believe they'll still accept paid results on TOP of those.

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NMAP SECURITY SCANNER from SignGuy
Nmap ("Network Mapper") is an open source utility for network exploration or security auditing.
www.insecure.org/nmap/index.html

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RETINA from Richard
www.eeye.com/html/
Richard writes
this is the server software I told you about. Retina is the one. They have a fifteen day trial. Pretty good stuff.
from website
Retina is the award winning network vulnerability scanner that discovers and helps fix all known security vulnerabilities on internet, intranet and extranet systems.

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INVISIBLE WEBSITES
find the sites the search engines don't tell you about
www.invisible-web.net/

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FRAMELESS JAVA POP UP WINDOW from Holger
Holger writes
This is a Java Script Code for a Frameless Pop Up Window. The Window got to be closed with CTRL+ALT+DEL or you enable Visitor to close Window themselves. Following Code got to be placed between your </head> and <body> Tag. Maybe it will work by placing after <body> Tag, but I didn't give it try.

</head>
<script>
function fenster()
{NFW=window.open("","minipop","fullscreen");
NFW.resizeTo(screen.availWidth,123);NFW.moveTo(0,(screen.availHeight-123))
{var f=""+
"<frameset rows='*,0' framespacing=0 border=0 frameborder=0>"+
"<frame name='top' src='anyofyour.html' scrolling='no'>"+
"<frame name='bottom' src='about:blank' scrolling='no'>"+
"</frameset>"}
NFW.document.open();NFW..document.write(f);NFW.document.close();}
</script>
<body onload="fenster()">

Anyofyour.html is the Document which will be exposed in the Pop Up.

Place following in your anyofyour.html Source Code:

</head>
<BODY bgcolor=FFFFFF><script>window.blur();</script>
<center>
<A <a onclick="top.window.close();" target="_blank" HREF="www.anyurl.com"><img src="anyofyourimages.gif"></a>
<P><a href="javascript:parent.close()">Close this Window</a>
</center>
</body>
</html>

That' all. The Code maybe changed to your Needs. You may leave second Link for closing Window!!! or use an Text Link instead of an Image and so on. Second: This is a Link to a free TGP-Submitter www.fantasticwebmachine.com You may download this Tool free for use. For submitting your Galleries you have to be online. No reciprocal Links are required. I have submitted one Gallery and got about 100 Visitors, but give it try yourself.

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SO YOU WANT TO BE AN AMATEUR ADULT WEBMASTER from Mike
Mike writes
Here is an article I wrote for THE AMATEUR ezine, JANUARY 2002
www.amateurmagazine.net
I can send photos and easily make it a pictoral if you would consider posting it.

Have you ever seen porn on the web and thought to yourself "gee, is that girl
on dope or what, I could do better than that". Many people often wonder who all
of these naked people are and how they get on various websites. I though that I
might share some insight for those thinking of starting their own adult pay-
site. This is not really a "how-to" so much as just our story with some advice.
I am actually a web-developer and had worked with several "models" who had pay-
sites at the time and saw that they were getting loads of traffic and were
making a few dollars with their pics and such and decided to get into amateur
adult entertainment thinking it would be easy and here is a recap of how I
started.

CONTENT: The first thing I needed was content. I briefly explored "buying"
content, but as an avid porn-surfer, I had already seen most of what was
available 10 times over. I figured I could hire "models" and photo them
locally. I would have "exclusive" content and get to watch girls get naked as
well!

EQUIPMENT: I then reviewed my equipment. I already had a 1.3 mpxl camera and my
partner and I had just bought 2 Mpeg movie cameras at $500 ea. The photo
quality was ok, and the videos were quite nice, so we got a few lights and were
ready. In hindsight, I just bought a $1500 4.0 mpxl camera and should have done
so from the beginning- oh well. You can see some samples at
www.gradeagirl.com/sample

RECRUITING: We then started to run ad's in the local DC "city-paper" - which
conveniently had an adult section and the local college campus paper as well.
Almost instantly, calls started rolling in. Even though we requested a sample
photo in the ad, girls would just call and inquire and I would then have to
talk (usually at an inconvenient time) and try to get them to send a photo via
email or snail mail. We got everything from pro/ semi-pro girls wanting $500/hr
to college girls and skanks just looking for (dope money). We actually had
drawn up pay rates and posted them on our business website for people to
review. Basically, we offered about $100/hr for nude and $150/hr for explicit -
which we were told was the going rates. We got several fatties which prompted
us to re-word "slim-to-medium" in our ad. We also got some real hotties that of
course never called back to schedule a shoot. Our ad was straight forward - we
pay girls to get nude for website. Some pricks try the hustle and claim to be
a "New York" agency or some crap, and try to get girls to pose for a "free
portfolio" - but there may be some legal issues with that and regardless, it's
just cheesy.

EITHER WAY, ALWAYS GET A PHOTO FIRST. For some people, you may have girlfriends
willing to pose and that will save a lot of time and effort. However, if you
are interested in doing this as more than just a hobby, you will need multiple
models to make any real money. I'm not saying that a one- girl site will not
work, just that more is more.
THE SHOOT: The first one or two shoots we did at my buds condo (I'm married,
and my wife knows - but didn't want a bunch of girls at our home) - partially
for the security offered by the pass-door and partially to save a buck in case
no one showed. Essentially, about 1/2 of the girls scheduled will show up. One
time they all showed, another time we twiddled our thumbs for 6 hours. We
finally learned to ALWAYS book a hotel and schedule 6-10 girls over-lapping to
get 3 or 4 to show up. You may be faced with 2 girls showing up at almost the
same time that way, but it's better than waiting an hour at a time and you may
even get some good lesbo action going that way as well.

THE ACTION: At first, we would just tell the girl to get naked and snap away,
but that results in girls that look like they are on dope. We got into it after
the nervousness wore off and started to tell them what to do and such - that
seems to be what most of them want anyway. About half of the girls we met were
willing to do some hard-core or lesbo action for a few extra $$$, but we played
it by ear mostly. Either way, it is much more comfortable if you joke around
and otherwise be nice to them, but not too nice. It's best to find out what
they will do prior to avoid any embarrassment. Of course, always get them to
sign the model release and get their ID first (discussed in Legal)

THE WEB SITE: As web developers, we did not have a problem slapping together a
half-way decent web-site and hosting it on our own server. However, this could
be the biggest cost and hassle of the whole process. Whereas the design is
simple, finding a designer who does porn and takes it seriously can be tough. I
recommend working with someone local, or someone (like www.awwg.net) who is
trustworthy and has experience with such. Hosting is a major concern because it
costs more and is less available to the adult community. The bandwidth needed
for 100's of people to simultaneously download images and movies is
astronomical. You would most likely do a sample page which (under 'marketing")
will receive the bulk of your traffic. It is best to host the sample page on a
separate server if possible. Doing a web-cam is a hassle and I go back to the
bandwidth issue, and of course a suitable place to broadcast from. Typically,
you can find an independent designer or small shop to do the work from $1000-
$5000 and a larger outfit could be $5000-$15,000. A good resource (reluctant-
plug) for adult web masters and entrepreneurs is www.pornresource.com

MOVING MONEY: Collecting money can be done in several fashions. The fact that a
porn-membership is an impulse buy, you need to be able to give people immediate
access to your site after they pay. If you have a "Merchant Account", your bank
provider may have software and a web interface that allows for people to pay
you on-line with a credit card and issue a password. Many people including us
use a 3rd party billing system like (reluctant-plug www.ccbill.com ) which
takes and processes credit card info, and issues a password They also handle
some customer service, security, and the accounting. They typically charge
about 15% of your sign-up fee, but overall, it is a stress-free way of dealing
with collecting the money. You will have to provide them with either a social
security number or a business tax-id # (yes - there are taxes - even on porn).

MARKETING: Now that we had about a dozen models in various "core" poses, a web-
site, and a way to legally take money, we were ready to launch. There are many
resources available and marketing an adult site can be a full-time job. We have
had limited success with "TGP" thumb-nail gallery posts' where you post a pic
or gallery of photos on a big web-site where people go to look for free porn.
The downside to that is you only get about 1 subscriber per 1000 visitors.
Another good way is to exchange "banners" with other adult sites - preferably
pay sites with existing members. You may have to pay for this if you have a new
site with little to offer. Search engines do little good and we didn't even
bother.

LEGAL: Although some people make a big deal out of adult entertainment, we
figured we would cover our asses as best we could and just fold if anyone
sweated us too hard. We told the girls exactly what we were doing and
had "borrowed" a standard model release stating that we would own the
photo/videos and we would photo all ID's and store them in the girls folder.
This and a standard disclaimer on our web-site was about it. There are many
legalities that we will not address and I would encourage anyone to do their
research first.

SUMMARY: We now have our porn site, which we will continue to grow based on our
recruiting efforts and budget. Although we've only made back a portion of the
money we invested - it is on track to pay for itself in the not-too-distant
future. After making some valuable contacts, we now have girls referred to us
frequently and get invited to sex-parties and such as well. The most important
thing I can relate to anyone breaking into the business is basically to be a
nice guy. "You catch more flies with honey". Check out our site
www.gradeagirl.com/sample and know that if you join, we actually appreciate it
and will improve it as time goes.

PS: If you are a webmaster, please do not try to hack our site. We will gladly give you a password if you want to exchange banners
www.gradeagirl.com/abanner.gif
or trade some original content or otherwise hire us.

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MAKING AN WEBMASTER EMAIL LIST from Steve
Steve writes
34k+ domains from DMOZ's adult listings...had to kill about 6k due to subdomains (?) - domains like: sub.domain.com ... too much work to go through them all. Probably lost all the .uk, .jp, etc webmasters to boot...well, dmoz has 87k+ adult listings...I know lots of webmasters have 100+ domains, so I am sure if you just added "webmaster@" to each line, you would piss a bunch of people off!

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ALTA VISTA USES DEFAULT 'OR' IN SEARCHES fom Steve
Steve writes
damn av uses a default "OR" in their searches...I'm sure you know this trick, but it is always a good one if some of your readers don't.
+link:extreme-dm +latina
www.altavista.com/sites/search/web?q=%2Blink%3Aextreme-dm+%2Blatina&kl=XX

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HUNTING FOR STATS from Steve
substitute for your favorite keyword to find stats pages: btw, a lot of webmasters hide them, so sometimes it pays to view the
source code...
www.altavista.com/sites/search/web?q=extreme-dm.com+sex&kl=XX

INTERESTING SITES
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COMPUTER ADDICTION from D. Trees
D. sent me this great site...hee hee haaa. Damn psychologists! =)

Guru-O-Gif writes
Whenever I hear the word "addiction", alarm bells go off in my head. Since I spend 12 hours a day at the computer...am I addicted to the compter?

D. Trees writes:
You are in need of this Web site:
www.computeraddiction.com/

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XXX COMPETITIONS SITE from Nigel
Nigel writes
I just created a site that lists all the legitimate XXX Competitions I can
track down on the net. At the moment there's only half a dozen competitions
listed, but I want to get heaps more.
current listed competitions
www.xxxcompetitions.com/
add your competition
www.xxxcompetitions.com/xxx-add-competition.shtml

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CAR TORNADO from Bruce
Bruce writes
Here a link to a goofy gadget that is supposed to save gas and improve performance. It has been on TV a lot lately.
www.tornadofuelsaver.com/info/

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VIVIAN LIVES from Bruce
Bruce writes
Here is a site that I read about. The girl who runs it is making good money and I thought you might like the ideas behind it. Basically the target audience is girls from 15-30 yrs old, and it mainly deals with fashion and "livestyle" issues, but what is really going on is slick advertising and marketing. The girls are being pounded with ads for the products that the main character, Vivian, uses.
www.vivianlives.com/

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JETBLUE
www.jetblue.com
new airline I hade never heard of with sexy uniforms and they are turning a profit.

GURU OF GIF
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VEGAS
so how was the show? I heard from Sexy Emma that it felt much smaller that previous years. Any pics on webmaster sites? Send in the URLs

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BUTCHER BLOWS THE ENGINE
OK, so I have worked almost two years in the foolish pursuit of building a car. I then get my first chance at talking it to the racetrack. Lap 3, while not even going fast, the engine blows =) No lies, this actually occured and I am once again on dry dock. Here are the tales
www.cobralads.com/butcher38.html
and if you are curious to what a blown engine can look like, here are a few more pics. The engine builder has taken the engine back and is examining it. I believe if all goes well, it will be replaced or repaired under warranty since I only had 300 miles on it
www.cobralads.com/exploring_engine/index.html

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I'M AN AMATEUR - HORSE SHIT =)
I feel the need to hope onto the soap box and do a little spewing. I think I need a new section called
DEW SOME SPEW
where I spout of my opinions on some adult or mainstream subject. One subject I find rather odd is the division in porn of AMATEUR VS ? Know what I am saying? Amateur vs pro? What the fuck is this bullshit all about? Let me lay it on the line right here and right now. If you are on the web and have a porn site and are trying to make money at it...you are a pro. You are in porn. I don't understand all these claims of "I'm an amateur" Someone please help me understand? 8^)
Here is where I draw the lines

AMATEUR
nude pics on the web and free...totally free, no ads. Here is a buxom babe who I have never met but I love her site and she is my definition of "amateur"
www.buxomdream.com/homex.html
Man! this babe is getting 10,000 uniques a day! A goldmine. Interesting
vwr1.hitbox.com/HitboxUI?acct=WQ500426HGNB81ENB81EN0

STRUGGLING PRO
nude pics on the web and trying to make money but bills may be higher than profits. I don't have an example of this since I don't know people's bottom lines. If you are attempting to make money with your website and nude pics...I fail to see how this is amatuer?

PRO
nude pics on the web and making more money that it is costing. Any classic porn site is an example

I don't even think it should be called PRO. I just don't see 90% of people calling themsleves amateurs being amateur? Huh? I don't get it nor have I ever gotten it? Does amateur mean
1. you take your own pics?
2. the pics are kinda grainy?
3. the pics don't have a back drop but are in a seedy hotel?
4. that you work from home?

Or does amateur mean that you have never appeared in a commercially released porn movie? So? I find it unusual that some of these "Amateurs" that I have known online for 5 years gross $5M a year and net $1M and make 10x more than struggling porno flick actresses but continue to call themselves 'amateur'

please, email me and show me the light WHAT makes a person or site an 'amatuer' -> andy@lips.com =) cause I don't see it

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RUBIK'S CUBE
Do you have a cube still sitting around you desk? I do. No idea why but I felt compelled to relearn how to solve it a year ago and am now 2 squares away. Is this 1980? What the hell am I doing. I used to know the Ideal Toys "Simple Solution" when I was a young pimple faced lad. I remember it was a series of patterns and moves and I could solve the cube in a couple of minute. Well, I some how stubled onto the following website and it fascintated me since it uses only 2 series of moves which are not that complex. Now it is not easy as it seems but I have finally made some progess. I even bought the guys video for $10. Have you ever wondered "these folks that sell obscure videos on obscure subjects...how many tapes do they sell and do they make any coin at it?" I have always wondered that. If you are bored and are looking to hurt your brain, pick up that dusty cube and give this solution a try. I am still about a month away from understanding it. I have solved it to step 5 and am at the end game.
www.olympus.net/personal/prmhem/
here is a page I made to better understand the edge series
www.andydunn.com/cube.html

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UFC FRIDAY !!!!!! WOOOHOOOO
Get out your remote control for this Friday. It is time to rent another awesome show of Mixed Martial Arts!
www.ufc.tv/events/ppv/ufc35/ufc35.asp

why on earth do they add goofy sound to their site. Get that sound off there! Ack!!! I can't take it! Stop that audio! =)

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those are my stories

chow mein wayne

Andy
andy@lips.com