is that they are related to the spammers we had during the DTW Era. They'd register and then create a userpage composed of spam.

My guess is that they then linked to those pages from these sites to drive traffic. I haven't visited any of the sites yet, some of them have not been cleared by Norton.

I compared names to some of the never used members of the Zone, and found no matches. In the last months of the Wiki, I deleted a couple of dozen offending users, and some of the names look familiar, but I cannot be sure. I might have notes I kept, buried, no doubt, under the stratigraphic column that is my desk.