A time line of events
April, 26, 2004
Mr. Chongqing spams the POPFile wiki. We remove the spam and we're angry.
April, 27, 2004
Mr. Chongqing spams again. We remove the spam again and we're even more angry now. We do some googling and soon have to find out that wiki spamming is very, very common. We also have to find out that Mr. Chongqing is a very, very busy person. The main page of our wiki gets locked.
April, 28, 2004
We have another visit from our friend. This time, he decides to spam our FAQ index page.
Manni has the idea of retaliating by playing along in the google ranks game. Says Joe: "I think your up too late to think clearly. :-)". Two hours later and we both are busy linking to chongqing.manni-heumann.de.
Another two hours and Joe has chongq.blogspot.com up and running.
April, 30, 2004
Mr. Chongqing tries to spam the wiki again. Meanwhile we have our shields up because the POPFile mastermind has hacked the wiki software to munge external links that aren't white-listed. The spammer tries several possible link syntaxes, clearly showing that he is not a machine, and then gives up.
On the same day, we realize that Google is already catching on. Our sites show up in searches for "chongqing wiki spam" and "chongqing emmss". Seems like Google was anxiously waiting for the opportunity to list something that was not either emmss dot com or a spammed wiki.
May, 1, 2004
Manni registers the domain chongqed.org and starts to add some content.
December, 3, 2004
The O'Reilly Network publishes and article about chongqed.org by Brian McWilliams, author of Spam Kings: "Chongq and the Spam Vampires".
December, 12, 2004
The chongqed.org database has reached a volume of 5,800 keywords, 1,884 spammers, and 8,090 spammer-keyword combinations. One of those 1,884 spammers gets angry on that day and starts a denial-of-service attack against chongqed.org.