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by CommieBobDole 2786 days ago
Also the domain was registered in 2012.

Probably a newsgroup dump in support of some spam or ad fraud scheme.

https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=computer-programming-...

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For fun, notice the Chinese IIS 404 page.

http://computer-programming-forum.com/foo

My guess is that someone just wants this to rank in search engines to any degree and then boost some SEO juice off it.

I tried using old Usenet archives for a content site before and couldn't overcome Google's dupe penalty despite my own value-adds.

Also the "Powered by ybChaxun" link goes to a page that seems to be a listing of Chinese postal codes.