Spam

Spam normally means unsolicited email, but what has me shaking my head today is "comment spam". Get this, someone had enough spare time to write a few bots to examine rss feeds and then follow them back to their webpage origin and start posting random comments on blogs. Now the bots are not dumb, they use open proxies and constantly change their ips, the actual content of the comments is normally fairly meaningless and sometimes random, BUT the url that they use is the actual spam. In my case I already have a poker spam bot spamming my blog thats been up all of a few days. Naturally I have now put some mechanisms in place to stop it but it never ceases to amaze me that people think by putting a comment in an ordinary person's blog that they will somehow generate clicks. sigh