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[Doc Searls Weblog] I just deleted a heap of blog spam comments. I think I may have hit one or two legit ones in the process.

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[Forums] blog spam | Site Feedback | Channel 9: Separate tags using commas like this: Xbox, Windows Vista, Gaming (view existing tags). File: . Add File Remove Cancel Attach one file of type: Zip, PDF, XPS, Office Document (.doc, .docx, etc.), Image (PNG, JPG, GIF) ...

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[Doc Searls' IT Garage] Beyond Monoculture | Doc Searls' IT Garage: As for the current blog spam attack, that has nothing to do with PageRank or links. That's simply the tried and tested tactic of people using a shotgun approach to flood search engines with a billion throwaway pages, courtesy of having the ability to put these up for free on domains they don't care about.

Jility Travels: I told them last year that I thought there was more wrong than just the break but they wouldn’t listen. I had sprained my knee the year before but recovered in a month to be good as new so I knew this was something that had happened when I broke my knee in the fall.

[Security Response Weblog] Yo! There is a Complaint Against You Lodged with the FTC/FBI/IRS ...: Take this example of a spam email: Dear Mr./Mrs. D####### P#######. This email was sent to inform you that your complaint case #278250765 filled with the FTC was successfully registered and posted in our Business Sentinel, a business complaint database ... Also as usual, attached to the email is a document name along the lines of Complaint_ .doc. If the receiver falls for the trick and opens the document, they will see the following in the document . ...

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[SOMEWHAT FRANK] Spam + Blog = Splog : How Is It Affecting The Blogosphere ...: I suggested a way users/readers could build a public blacklist of spamblogs by tagging them, using services like del.icio.us or furl. Apparently, the idea doesn’t work: there is no immediate reward for denouncing a blog as spamblog as long as blog search engines don’t use it, and for the time being, their presence on del.icio.us even increases their visibility”¦

[Open Parachute] Scientific “authority” « Open Parachute: On another note, Johnson still hasn’t defined what he means by ‘theory’. I know how he has defined it in a couple of his “works”, but I was hoping that he would speak for himself (I don’t like trying to speak for others, even if it comes from other work they have written).

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