What is combing?
Combing is a very effective search strategy: instead of simply searching, you use various
other net resources:
-The continuously updated "Top 100" or "Top 1000" URL-locations -Usenet newsgroups and their various "vigilant filters" and "short range queries" -Relevant site links pages.
Obviously combing is an important technique for whatever interest you may have, quite
useful in order to spare an incredible lot of Internet searching hours.
We'll use it here to wage battle against our "commercial smut" enemies, but you
would be well advised to learn it and use it for *any* interest you may have...
Case study, combing commercial smut depots
death to the pornodealers
Warning: you better set the option "autoload
images" OFF inside your Netscape settings, else you'll pretty soon regret having
accessed this kind of sites... you will not loose anything... NONE of the images they
carry is worth loading... should you really want nice "sexually explicit" images
(for free of course, and please excuse the pathetic euphemism), then visit the many
artists that expose their own work on the net... on the sites we are going to destroy (see
how in the 
CGI-reverse
engineering page) you'll not even find any "pornography" whatsoever, only
fetid smut.
Let's start with a typical "combing" approach, I will not hyperlink because I
do not want this site spidered along these links, but you may cut and paste the following
URLs:
Top1000 counter
http://www.hitbox.com/wc/world2.html ;TOP1000 "normal", example for useful combing
http://www.hitbox.com/wc/adult.html ;TOP1000 "adult", main entrance
http://www.hitbox.com/wc/top10.adult.html ;top 10 smut commercial
http://www.hitbox.com/wc/top2100.adult.html ;top > 2100... understand the "name"
;approach
Webcounter http://www.digits.com/top/both_adult_100.html ;top site has here "only" 540000 a day http://www.digits.com/top/comm_adult_100.html ;top site has here "only" 124000 a day
Etcetera... you understand the trick now... here are some other ones various smut counters: http://www.xxxcounter.com/home/ http://www.web21.com/ http://www.sexhound.com/index.cgi?from=16818 this one uses CGI! :-)
I do not want this page catalogued inside the smut information retrievers, therefore the above links are not hyperlinked... cut and paste them in order to use them.
For combing purposes you may also use: 1) the usual search engines (which give incredible results at time!) 2) ftp search, looking for "hidden" subdirectories with relevant names 3) the "big page provider" search engines (like the ones on geocities or mygale)
As you can see from the above short information, 1.1) many "counters' statistics" betray quite a lot of useful information... if, for instance, you are interested in jellyfishes (it's an example!) you would be well advised, instead of searching the web for ages, to have a quick look at all the pages that inside the counters' statistics, fall under the counter's main categories "biology" or "science"... pretty soon you would find the "golden link" you were looking for... 1.2) We need MANY addresses of SMUT dealers in order to find the many that utilise a CGI-script (or other attackpoints) in order to know "from which site" they got the query... as you'll see on the
filter@vigilant.bc.ca
I'll show you for instance one of my queries:
FIND how-to-search tutorial manual NOT spam NOT top position NOT advertising MAX 8
Such a query would give you useful information about "searching techniques" on the Web, you may of course construct how many queries you like and *register* (for free) by the vigilant filter, in order to get the results of your usenet queries emailed to you every day or week or month. Usenet query can also be done through the two big Usenet "depots": Dejanews and email query, that are explained