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MEET THE LADS FROM GAMMA AT INTERNEXT
Live and in Person! Keep your eyes out for Karl, Dan and company as they tour the show and shake the hands. They probably even know the where the hot amateur babes are having a secret party. Drop Dan or Karl an email before hand if you want to insure meeting up. Here is the gamma crew that is attending

Dangerous Dan - Lieutenant General
David - mailer administrator
Michael - erotism administrator
Eric - ''new'' account manager
Blake - hosting bandwidth main man
King Karl - the kingpin

but you can't meet me cause I am a hermit living in a dark cave on the side of a hill =)

Hey! check out the new pic of Karl's ride ...weeee wooo! Now you can talk "cobra's" with him at the show.
www.andydunn.com/karl.jpg

don't forget to track down Legendary Lars, Bangwang, and Kidslick. I am betting that MojoMoney is there as well.

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It is one of the monster sized "War and Peace" versions of sexswap news, coming to you in the heat of the summer. It's a DRY heat. This week is blowing the lid off the popper with member comments on MPEG POPPERS, BLOGS and even pro-level CROOK DETECTION. I had to toss in a little tidbit on those sexy babes "The Fontanas" and "Stephen the Dell Dude". Have a great time if you are going to Internext since it sounds like it should be pretty big by the amount of webmasters that have written to me about it.

here are the stories about a man named Jed...

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THE FANTANAS
Is it just me, or are the new Fanta ads not the most hella cool? You take these 4 hot latina babes, and have them strutting around to techno dance songs and you have a winner. The first time I saw an ad was last night and I thought "damn, if this was a CD, I'd buy the damn thing"! These chicks are cooler than all hell. In the ad, these young lads are pushing an old chevy barracuda down the street in 120F temps and sweating their nuts off when out pop these ultra sexy Fantanas! who save the day with cool drinks. Those babes can strut. Way too fun =) I found their site and might even have to change the old desktop to one of the babes.
www.wantafanta.com/fantanas.html
www.fanta.com/get_ecard.html?cd=3&sd=3
www.fanta.com/get_ecard.html?cd=4&sd=1
www.fanta.com/get_ecard.html?cd=1&sd=2
www.fanta.com/get_ecard.html?cd=2&sd=1

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FTC TO PROBE VERISIGN MARKETING from Brujah
biz.yahoo.com/ri/020806/tech_verisign_3.html

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HELP? CAN THIS BE FIXED - MY IE IS HACKED =)
My IE 5.5 has been hacked. This might be a reguistry hack? First, let me start with a screen capture tip from Bruce since I used a screen capture for this example.

SCREEN CAPTURE TRICKS
Some of you may not of ever tried this, but if you click PrintScreen or PSc on your keyboard, and then open a drawing program like paint or CPIC, then paste...there is your screen. Wel Bruce told me that if you do an ALT PrintScreen, you get the active window only...very very trick.

BACK TO THE HACK
for the last year, I have had to look at the tagline "the cartoon beauty of sexual interourse" on the top of my browser daily
www.andydunn.com/dang.gif

Although this is funny at times, I am curious as how to remove it? Got the answer? please email andy@lips.com and I will add it to next weeks letter.

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MONSTER BLOG LINKS
this blog this just keeps getting bigger and bigger! Here is the best definition of a blog I have found to date:

"Simply put, web logging, known as blogging, is an easy way of updating a web page via a browser without the hassle of launching an FTP client or HTML editor." ...Biz Stone

AWESOME BLOG COMPARISON TABLE from Brujah
www.urldir.com/bt/

WEB LOG COMPENDIUM
www.lights.com/weblogs/tools.html

BLOGGING BOOKS AT AMAZON

Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735712999/taunt

The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/073820756X/taunt

We've Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0738207411/taunt

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30 MINUTE TRIALS MIGHT BE HOT NEW TICKET from Juicy Jill
Jill writes
have you seen CEN's 30 minute trial programs? Its having amazing conversion rates? They're not really pushing it in public yet because they're trying to see if it will blow up their merchant accounts.

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THE MYTHS BEHIND 1/300 SIGN-UP RATIOS
Ken writes
So why do you only make ..006 cents per click? That's the part I can't figure out.

Andy explains
I have tried to explain this before and I will try again since I think this is an important concept. I have always taken signup ratios with a bag of salt. I am sure some of you think my signup ratio is turdsville at 1/2500 or worse =) I like it there and this is the math behind the reasons why.

Let me go back to the .006. You might recall that "Michael" who sends his traffic to nasty made roughly the same income for May using 1/10th the traffic. This means that he is making 6 cents on his traffic. Now why does he make so much at nasty per hit and I make so little? Well to me, these number mean very little since all traffic has a different strength and there are factors that determine the streght of a hit. What I care about is the size of the check at the end of the month. $10k = $10k.

Why is my traffic so watery? The reason is because I choose to make it that way by the banners I select to use, and by the nature of the members of my banner exchange. Could I improve my signup ratio? Yes, I could make it 1/1000 or better tonight. Why don't I do that? The reason is because I have tested and make more money the current way.

First. Let me make the example simpler by artifically creating two examples

1. I could use a real banner and get 0.25% click-rate, sending hits to Nasty. This traffic might have a 1/1000 signup rate

2. I could use a blind banner with a 0.75% click rate, and send these hits to Nasty and get a 1/2500 signup rate.

At the end of the day, who makes the most money? Well let's assume I show my banner 4,000,000 times in a day

4,000,000 * 0.0025 / 1000 = 10 signups

4,000,000 * 0.0075 / 2500 = 12 signups

If you just look at my signup ratio in isolation, you would say that the first clicks are so much better since they are 1/1000. In reality, I will take the 1/2500 signup rate since it sends enough volume to more than make up for the lower signup rate. It is only a 1/2500 signup ratio, yet I make $80 a day more with the second system. I think many people miss this fact and I have talked about it on several occasions. I want the most money at the end of the day. I do not really give a rat's ass about my signup ratio. The ratio cannot be looked at in isolation...it has to be considered with the volume of traffic sent and the total income.

My points are

1. Sign-up ratios means very little. Other important factors have to be considered such as banner click rate and highest gross income combo at the end of the day.

2. Test Test Test. All the BS talk in the world means nothing. Testing banners. Testing paysite front ends. Testing new niches. Testing new pay methods. Testing is the best way I know of to toggle the switched o make more money.

My favorite story about this odd signup ratio and banner click rate relationship, is from the beginning of internet porn, when I first started the banner exchange. At that time, regular banners were getting a 2% click rate which was aweome. Someone invented the first blind banner. Would you believe that for a week or two, we were getting 17% click rates. It was freaking insane! YES the 2% banners got much better signup rations BUT you could send 8X the traffic using the other banner. The signup ratio was easily not 8X worse. It was an easy call. I will admit that the call is not as easy to make today.

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FREESPEECH - ASHCROFT - TRAIN WRECK from Jill
www.ynotmasters.com/news/ynews/issues/080102/page3.html
www.lawrencewalters.com/

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BAG OF SALT TABLE O' TRIX CONTENT

MORE THOUGHTS ON THE POWER OF BLOGS from Niggle
RE: MPEG URL POPPERS from Craig The Programmer
RE: MPEG URL POPPER QUESTIONS from Kevin
HOW DO YOU CAUSE POP-UP IN KAZA OR P2P from Wyatt
RE: WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER LINKS from guru-o-gif
PRACTICALLY NETWORKED from Craig the Programmer
INKTOMI PENALIZING from Paul
SECRET DOMAIN STAY OFFER from Jim
SHARING UNIQUE TRAFFIC IDEAS? from Niggle
SPIDER FLEECING AND NEWSLETTER SEARCH from Richard
HOW ARE THESE LINE DRAWINGS MADE from Juicy Jill
RE:MPEG URL POPPER from ken
ROTATION OF BANNERS REFRESH RATE from Scott
TO CATCH A THIEF from D. Trees
RE: MPEG POPPER RESULTS from Dan

MORE NEWS
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SURFERS MORE WILLING TO PAY FOR CONTENT from Richard
www.nytimes.com/2002/08/01/technology/01ONLI.html?todaysheadlines

BYSH ADVISOR ENCOURAGES HACKING from Charles
smlnk.com/?W8R4O78S

CONFESSIONS OF AN EBAY CROOK from sign_bldr
www.msnbc.com/news/790212.asp?pne=msn

COUPLE GOES TO JAIL FOR CHILD MODEL VIDEO TAPE from sign_bldr
www.msnbc.com/news/790369.asp?0bl=-0

MICROSOFT TO REVEAL WINDOWS CODE from sign_bldr
www.msnbc.com/news/790119.asp

SURREAL GOVERNMENT SENDS TIPS TO MOST WANTED from Emma
www.aclu.org/news/2002/n080602a.html

MS MEDIA PLAYER'S BEAT GOES ON from Poshspice
news.com.com/2100-1023-948669.html

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UNIQUE NICHE SITES TO PROMOTE
CHECK IT OUT :
www.digitallytwisted.com/

Sick and tired of trying to sell typical crap sites?
Take a look at what we have to offer. Sites like:
thickfreaks.com/index_nc.html

These sites convert and retain like crazy! Don't take our word for it, try them out for yourself.

===> We pay on EVERY SALE. Multiple credit card processors, checks and dialers.
If you make any kind of sale, you get paid! We also pay on exit sales.
Special deals available to anyone with good traffic!

www.digitallytwisted.com/

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MORE THOUGHTS ON THE POWER OF BLOGS from Niggle
Niggle writes
I'm more convinced today of the viability of a crossing of porn and blog
after noticing that Siccash has just released several new sites like "Bitch
Mobile" and "Cruise Patrol".

It's the whole "reality porn" thing that Bang Bus started. I guess it's an
extension of the move to Amateur porn that started a few years ago - people
wanted something "real". And lately, TV has been saturated with lots of
Reality Shows, so I guess it was natural that porn started moving in that
direction as well.

So yeah, if the big players are realising the strength of of creating
personalised sites over faceless Mega-sites, then maybe Blog has a
legitimate role as a good upsell point.

Andy writes
I would agree completely. I just think the truth is stranger than fiction and this is why reality does so well. People want to get to know the girls...a blog shares a piece of the "movie star" with the average Joe. I am suprised no holleywood star has done one...it would make for a very popular site if your favorite start talked about what they did each day. A fine example is MTV's "The Osbournes" and the new Anna Nicole show on E!
www.eonline.com/On/AnnaNicole/?fdpop

People thurst to learn the details on the people we watch, and admire, and fantasize about.

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RE: MPEG URL POPPERS from Craig The Programmer
Craig quotes
<snip>
I'm testing this as we speak.. I have about 20 files I created in my shared folder in Kazaa, and BearShare. Surprisingly enough, they're NOT getting downloaded like I would have expected. Ran the software overnight and only got about 10 downloads. Maybe the key is to have a couple hundred files -- more search results would definitely equal more downloads?
</snip>

Craig writes
I think the first problem is that you use Kazaa =) One of the biggest
flaws with that p2p system is when you do searches it doesn't search the
entire network. The system randomly picks supernodes (aka other users) and
does it's searches that way. So you can actually search for something,
disconnect, reconnect and research the same item and get an entierly new set
of results (plus I've came across many other negative aspects about Kazaa
that got me to stop using them). My personal favorite for a p2p system
(which may help in distribution) is Edonkey (edonkey2000.com). Although it
takes a bit of getting used to that network is MUCH better at propigating
files. I won't get into all the technical aspects of it but as a comparison
files I used to have available for upload via Kazaa were accessed a heck of
a lot more in Edonkey....you may want to consider switching to that to try
getting your videos out into the world.

Craig quotes
<snip>
And one more thing on this issue.. I know there's a way to attach descriptions and/or keywords to a file as well. I don't know if it's done straight through Kazaa (in My Kazaa), or if they're somehow encoded right into the file itself. So maybe I'm not optimizing my traffic here by only using descriptive filenames?
</snip>

Craig writes
There are ways to put descriptive information at the beginning of an
MPEG...not sure about a WMV. However the search algorithms Kazaa uses
mainly use the category/description/keywords from Kazaa itself (AFAIK), not
from the file.

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RE: MPEG URL POPPER QUESTIONS from Kevin
Kevin writes
Now that's not a ton of traffic to use as a judging tool, but that's another problem... I'm having a tough time getting any large amounts of traffic. I wanted to pose these questions to fellow webmasters using this traffic tactic:

Kevin asks
1. What file swapping service are you using? (Kazaa, bear share, aimster, etc..)

2. How many movie files are you sharing? (I only have about 100 files, mostly the same file renamed over a bunch of times)

3. Are you using the same movie file like 1000x over, just renamed to something the searches will pickup (like mpeg_fuck_sex_blowjob.mpeg) Or are you using many different movie files?

4. What file sizes do you feel get downloaded more often? ( I've been trying to keep my files at around 1mb or a bit lower, but I'm not having great traffic results... so maybe this isn't the key formula. )

5. Are you guys popping a paysite URL, or are you sending the surfer to your free/tgp sites? I've thought about this quite a bit.. and I started here trying to pop my paysite URL. But then as I'm seeing no sales, I'm thinking that maybe sending this traffic to my TGP site might not be a bad idea.

I mean, the Kazaa user is looking for free shit as it is... so just maybe redirecting them to a quality TGP site could result in some decent bookmarks or something? Again.. questionable, and might be better answered by someone that has done this for awhile. Just thought I would throw this by you and keep the thread going. I plan on setting up a dedicated PC on my shared cable connection here just running Kazaa and/or BearShare, with maybe around 1,000 movie files shared to see how it goes.

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here are some old stories related to mpeg url poppers

HOW DO YOU CAUSE POP-UP IN KAZA OR P2P from Wyatt
Wyatt asks
You ever download mpegs from Kaza or any of the P2P networks, and upon pressing play a pop-up windows pops up? Do you know how to do this? Can this is also be done with other video formats?

Andy writes
I seem to remember a trick or two, one sent in by Craig the Programmer, that described how to code to pop ads in Windows Media Player. I can't find the exact trick. Can anyone tell us the code or language that this is done it? please email me andy@lips.com

Craig writes
It was .asf format....basically the Windows Media Player format....I'm not
certain if the url popup code will work on a program capable of playing .asf
or if it HAS to be Windows Media Player....however it's pretty simple to do
and the encoder to do the url popups is available from the microsoft Windows
Media Player site.

Craig wrote back....I think it is .asf code

Craig writes
It was .asf format....basically the Windows Media Player format....I'm not
certain if the url popup code will work on a program capable of playing .asf
or if it HAS to be Windows Media Player....however it's pretty simple to do
and the encoder to do the url popups is available from the microsoft Windows
Media Player site.

from sexswap #228
POP UPS IN MOVIES by Phil and Craig
Phil asks
I recently stumbled across a few porn mpegs on Kazaa that somehow force a popup window to open to a certain url everytime they are played in Windows Media Player. Have you heard anything about this? I did a lot of searching on the net and couldn't find a word about this anywhere, but as it concerns the Adult internet industry I thought you might know.

Craig the programmer responds
it was the media player form movies ... .asf I believe is the extension. You could add triggers to the videos to allow different things to happen at any time in the video....one of which was open up a url. The software to do this is located at microsoft's media player home site.

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RE: WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER LINKS from guru-o-gif

WINDOWS MEDIA TECHNOLOGY
www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.asp

CREATE CONTENT WITH MICROSOFT WINDOWS MEDIA ENCODER 7
msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwmt/html/contcreation.asp

CODEC 101 FOR WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER
msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwmt/html/codecs.asp

Microsoft Solution for Intranets, Broadcast Component
smlnk.com/?ZKFU71AG

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PRACTICALLY NETWORKED from Craig the Programmer
Craig writes
Very good HOWTO site for internet networking
www.practicallynetworked.com/

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INKTOMI PENALIZING from Paul
Paul writes
not sure if anyone mentioned this to you but this might be of interested to your readers....we noticed that inktomi's paid submission service has begun penalizing pages that have been designed to rank well. they have pulled all mine from the listings and said it was considered spam. i paid $25 per listing. i would think at $25 a listing i should be allowed to craft my pages to rank well.

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SECRET DOMAIN STAY OFFER from Jim
Jim writes
I'm currently moving all my domains from NSI (Verysign) to Domain Direct ( Tucows ), I heard a second horror story last week about a domain name being stolen. I don't want to be their next victim. In the process of moving my domain from NSI they offered me to renew for 2 years at $30 to do so I simply have to go to
www.stayoffer.com

From that page, you can renew any domain for 2 years at $15.00 per year. So if some of your readers want ( or must ) stay with Verysign, they should keep this link in note for times they need to renew!

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SHARING UNIQUE TRAFFIC IDEAS? from Niggle
Niggle writes
There's often been discussions on here about places other than your Website
that can be good for generating traffic. I've started trying a new avenue
for getting visitors.

As some of you know, I run a site about the semi-imaginary life of Lara
mixing blog with porn up-sell. Lara actually has an authenticity about her
and a fleshed-out character because of the blog aspect.

For some of my articles, I cull tidbits of relationship advice from various
"how to meet girls" newsletters and websites. This week I started posting on
some of these discussion groups as Lara. I don't spam them - I reply to
relevant threads properly and just let my signature do the up-sell to my
site.

Don't have any traffic stats yet as I've only just started, but I'm
interested to see if other people may have followed a similar path and what
sort of success they had?

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SPIDER FLEECING AND NEWSLETTER SEARCH from Richard
Richard asks
Did you at one time talk about ways to prevent a "offline downloader" program ;ike Offline Explorer or similar from snatching all links pages and images in a site??? I know I saw someone write about it and a "robots" exclusion list or something like that to prevent wholesale snatching of sites but I can't place where exactly .

Andy writes
ya, I think I wrote about it 20 times. Some of the things to search are

spider fleecing
bandwidth theft
bandwidth Thief Blocking
end bandwidth theft
stop hotlinkers
RewriteCond

Richard writes
Is there a search on your newsletter archives??? I don't recall there being one available . . . .

Andy writes
it is right at the top of the yellow...google based
trix.sexswap.com

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HOW ARE THESE LINE DRAWINGS MADE from Juicy Jill
Jill writes
how are line drawings made like this
northshoreswimwear.com/bottoms.htm

Andy writes
I would guess that there are a few ways. I personally would draw it in Adobe Illustrator. I am not sure if they make it anymore, but Freehand would be another choice, Since Flash uses a lot of line art, Macromedia most likely makes a line drawing tool as well.
www.andydunn.com/jill.gif

I just checked and Aldus used to make Freehand but it looks like Macromedia purchased them a long while back
www.macromedia.com/software/freehand/

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RE:MPEG URL POPPER from ken
Ken writes
for the kazaa search its not really the number of files you have although that will help but to just name the one file with a hella long name giving it every search word you can think of. The renaming to a .mpeg is defiantly something we are going to give a shot.

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ROTATION OF BANNERS REFRESH RATE from Scott
Scott writes
I was wondering what your view is on banner rotation timing, i.e is there a proven/recommended best delay between rotating your banners on the clients browser ? I know ICQ rotate the banner every 60 seconds but personally I was thinking more every 30 seconds..

Andy writes
I personally feel that rotating the banner is a waste of time. The reason it was done on sites in the first place was because of CPM prices where showings were paid and so they altered showing to make more. I think there is almost nothing to gain by refreshing a banner on an open windon.

Scott writes
cause every minute in internet time is well... a long time. I know a important point here is bandwidth costs where the more rotations the more bandwidth but still if reducing the rotation delay improves the chance of a click.. it may be wroth it.

Andy writes
I tend to disagree. I find you have one chance at the sale and the added overhead of the rotation script is not worth it. If you want to show people more than one banner, I would personally put 2 sponsor banners on the same page, rather than use a rotation script.

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TO CATCH A THIEF from D. Trees
D. writes
I've noticed lately that thieves are showing much more restraint than they
used to. Perhaps it's a different cadre of porn hounds who steal user/pass
combinations, but nowadays I don't see multiple logins like I used to.

But the thieves are still there. Stealing my content. Stealing yours.

What I've noticed recently is a rash of stolen user/pass combinations that
are not being used simultaneously by multiple porn hounds. Rather, a
single thief will use the user/pass for one day. Then the next day, a
different user will login for downloads. Doing this allows the thief to
bypass much of the automated software out there that looks for multiple
logins. Automatons can't catch this kind of thievery. Only the practiced
eye will pick it out.

I purge my logfiles every other day, and periodically grep them -- using
the command below -- to have a look at what's inside.

grep member* /var/log/access-log.latexfetish.com* >> kill

Grep means Get Regular Expression and Print. In the example above, I'm
looking through my logfile for type of hit to my member's directory. They,
using the pipe command >> I write that information to a file called kill.
The latter file can be opened by any text editor. Since I'm on a Linux
box, I use Pico. But you could use Notepad or SimpleText.

Several times I've found something quite interesting. Here's a clipped
portion of the logins to my site.

mila1br1-ce2.mil.it.prserv.net - lusch1 [01/Aug/2002:13:30:14 -0400] "HEAD
/members/ HTTP/1.0" 200 0
mila1br1-ce2.mil.it.prserv.net - Nikita [01/Aug/2002:13:30:14 -0400] "HEAD
/members/ HTTP/1.0" 200 0
mila1br1-ce2.mil.it.prserv.net - moon74 [01/Aug/2002:13:30:14 -0400] "HEAD
/members/ HTTP/1.0" 200 0
mila1br1-ce2.mil.it.prserv.net - pmb0603 [01/Aug/2002:13:30:14 -0400]
"HEAD /members/ HTTP/1.0" 200 0
mila1br1-ce2.mil.it.prserv.net - ronnieb [01/Aug/2002:13:30:14 -0400]
"HEAD /members/ HTTP/1.0" 200 0
mila1br1-ce2.mil.it.prserv.net - waynem [01/Aug/2002:13:30:14 -0400] "HEAD
/members/ HTTP/1.0" 200 0
mila1br1-ce2.mil.it.prserv.net - smiles [01/Aug/2002:13:30:14 -0400] "HEAD
/members/ HTTP/1.0" 401 0
mila1br1-ce2.mil.it.prserv.net - perche [01/Aug/2002:13:30:14 -0400] "HEAD
/members/ HTTP/1.0" 200 0
mila1br1-ce2.mil.it.prserv.net - 7047midnight [01/Aug/2002:13:30:14 -0400]
"HEAD /members/ HTTP/1.0" 200 0
mila1br1-ce2.mil.it.prserv.net - rqhouse [01/Aug/2002:13:30:14 -0400]
"HEAD /members/ HTTP/1.0" 200 0
mila1br1-ce2.mil.it.prserv.net - rsgmc [01/Aug/2002:13:30:14 -0400] "HEAD
/members/ HTTP/1.0" 200 0
mila1br1-ce2.mil.it.prserv.net - rosarioj [01/Aug/2002:13:30:14 -0400]
"HEAD /members/ HTTP/1.0" 200 0
mila1br1-ce2.mil.it.prserv.net - nortboerg [01/Aug/2002:13:30:14 -0400]
"HEAD /members/ HTTP/1.0" 200 0
mila1br1-ce2.mil.it.prserv.net - aps [01/Aug/2002:13:30:14 -0400] "HEAD
/members/ HTTP/1.0" 401 0

I know this looks like so much weird tech stuff to the non-Unix user, but
anyone can look at it long enough and see the problem: The same IP address
(mila1br1-ce2.mil.it.prserv.net) has logged in 14 times with different
usernames. All but one of those logins resulted int a 200, or successful
login. Only one was a 401.

A single Italian IP addy shouldn't have 13 good logins. We all know that.
I disabled all 13 of the accounts and let the folks know that they'd been
hacked. What's disturbing is that this isn't the only instance of this
that I've seen. Several other thieves have logged in the same way over the
last couple of months, checking only for a 200 reply. Then he goes away.

But, then the thieves come, one at a time, one day at a time. They show a
remarkable restraint. If it weren't for me grepping the logfiles
periodically, I might never have caught them.

And so might you have thieves in your own system. If you don't eyeball the
logfiles every now and then, you'll likely be swamped with thieves that
you don't even know are there.

Feel free to write and ask any questions.

Mistress Diana Trees -- trees@latexfetish.com

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RE: MPEG POPPER RESULTS from Dan
Dan writes
I put about 150 mpegs on kazaa encoded them with my link, renamed them to mpegs, etc. They hardley get downloaded and I have every category covered. What a waste of time, almost no traffic from it.

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Jill writes
LOL! I missed this last year. Google has too much time on their hands!
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INSTANT MERCHANT ACCOUNT PROGRAM
Old time contributor Bob just wrote in with his very slick new site idea. He has instant approaval for mainstream sites to become merchant account agents. This means you can sell merchant account and get the commish. What is extra cool is the instant approval.
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MORE THOUGHTS ON WHEN YOU CAN ACTUALLY BUY TRAFFIC
I am suprised with the emails and ICQs I have been getting regarding traffic. I thought my opinions and explanations were clear but I perhaps have only made the issue cloudy. Let me re-state some of my opinions and reasoning, and at the end, I will give you some examples where I believe a site could buy traffic.

1. DON'T BUY TRAFFIC (yes I am exaggerating)
I have said that since day one and it is one of my classic over exaggerations. What I am really saying is that it is very difficult to buy traffic in the adult and mainstream sectors. The reasons it is difficult is because demand far outstrips supply, and this creates strong upward price pressure. Then, only the top5% of sites with some inherant advantage can make money on the higher priced hits. I guess what I am saying is be aware that traffic prices are high and will continue to be high so your site really has to be special to make a profit.

2. WHY SELL MY TRAFFIC
Why would a person sell traffic? A site would sell traffic when the market to sell hits pays more than using the traffic internally or the current revenue model. It's like when a farmer sells his orange grove to KB homes so they can build houses on it. The market for the land is worth more than the current orange crop.

3. HOW IN PRICE DETERMINED
one of my ICQ friends wrote me the following

"ok, can you tell me what I'm doing wrong here?
100,000 sexswap hits = $1000
which according to you equates to 10 signups = $400
(net loss of $600)"

Correct but there are a couple things going on here. The farmer has no reason to sell his land unless he gets more for it than oranges. Why would I sell my traffic for the exact amount I already make on it? That would be a zero sum gain. If I make $600 on it, there would be no gain, and a shitpile more work to sell it for $600 elsewhere. There is no reason to do this. Instead, the only reason to do this is to "make additional profit if the market will allow the increas in price.". The traffic must be priced above $600 for their to be interest from the seller to do anything different than he is currently doing.

and now the important part that I have been giving more thought to

4. WHO CAN BUY TRAFFIC
A person can buy traffic if they have an economic advantage. I just read about this guy who is the king of french fries in america "J.R. Simplot". The guy is a multibillionaire and about 90 years old now. Well he started with a potato farm. Hey then bought a lumber mill. He then used the lumber to build a phosphate mine. From the mine he created fertilizer for the potatos. You can see how he would have huge cost advantages over the other potato farmers.

In adult, here might be some examples of sites with above average profits
- paysite owned by a hosting company (low bandwidth costs)
- paysite owner by strip club (low content costs)
- girl or wife paysite owner (zero content costs)
- hot hot niche trend (temporary above average income)
- large company with 50 paysite niches (more chances at sale - distributed costs)
- girl paysite has almost celebrity fan base (longer average stay)

These example sites above have accounting advantages. Such a site might be able to make more per hit than the selling price of traffic, and therefore can buy the traffic that others cannot and can bid up the price.

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