Targeting Spam > Whats With The Essays (Spam)?
[Ken McGuire : Blogging Technology, The Web, Creative Thoughts - Kilkenny, Ireland] Picked up a spam comment yesterday - not your regular run of the mill casino gambling rubbish or random letters and numbers, but 12 A4 pages and 6,737 words (thank you MS Word) on why women are the favoured gender and “Christianity is a dumping ground for the disfavored” amongst other things.
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[Spanring.eu] Comment spam at Christian Spanrings Blog: However, reading what Akismet has caught I’m wondering who is willing to pay for those apparently random (certainly they are not) word-link-compostions? The algorithm or method those compositions are based on would be interesting to know.
[Nickbarclay.blogspot.com] Nick Barclay's BI Blog: RSInteract Comment Spam: The catalyst of this post was one Christian Smyth (apparently the CEO of ICS) who thought that a good way to promote the fact that his company's product, RSInteract, had won an award recently would be to post the entire press release text in the comments of a post I wrote recently (I have since removed the comment text). A day later I gained yet another piece of comment spam thanks to another, this time anonymous, ICS employee trying to promote an upcoming seminar.
[Radiofreeblogistan.com] Comment spam @ Radio Free Blogistan: It's fairly straightforward, but lately the comment spammers have been using legitimate URLs (fda.gov, microsoft.com) to test the boundaries of our filters. In those cases, still delete the spam, still ban the IP, but be careful not to include the legitimate URLs on the blacklist.
[Noone.org] Blogging is futile ” Blacklisting comment spam in blosxom: . (I'm not responsible for the content ofany linked external web page.) Times are CET respective CEST (which means GMT +0100 respective +0200).
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