Xrumer

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Xrumer is the bane of many a forum admin's life, a tool from www.botmaster.net

[edit] What they say

XRumer is the premier automated link-building tool. Through the use of this tool you will see a significant increase in the number of unique visitors to your site, as well as see your site jump in the search engine result pages.

2. Isn't it a spam-bot? In no way XRumer acts like a spam-bot since spam is defined in legislation as 'unsolicited email', whereas XRumer simply posts messages created by users, which cannot be illegal providing the user does not violate the legislation by provoking racial hatred or anything prohibited by the law. Besides, in most cases XRumer is smart enough to find sections like 'Flood', 'Off topic', 'Flame', 'Chit-chat' where advertising takes place with the permission from moderators and webmasters. XRumer is not an email spam bomber and should not be confused with such software. The laws of USA, Russia, Canada, Spain, Germany, France and other countries explicitly state the illegal nature of email spam which XRumer has nothing to do with.

[edit] What Admins say

Through the use of this tool, you will receive complaints of forum spamming and your name will be mud, however, as you probably also use email spamming, you probably don't care.

This is a forum spamming tool, with the sole purpose of posting garbage to large numbers of forums. While forum spamming is not illegal, it will almost certainly be a violation of the terms and conditions for use of the forum.

While there may be a reason to post email to multiple recipients (a newsletter), there can be very little reason to post a message to hundreds of unrelated forums.