A new kind of spam

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October 13, 2007

A new kind of spam

I’ve been getting hit with a new kind of spam lately. the trackback spam. And it moves pretty fast. The post I just published…already hit.

Basically, a dumbing blog is created that post countless articles that basically read
[random name] wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
and then is followed by a small exerpt. This is obviously automatically generated and is just another sad form of comment spam that clogs up our comment boxes. It appears they make money off the Google ads they run.

At first, I just deleted them but now I’m actually marking them as spam. You should do the same.

2 comments

At 3:05 am on October 13, 2007, Catherine commented:

I have no idea how to mark a comment as spam, but I don’t seem to get too many - not so far, anyway. I’m not spam, Michele sent me :)
At 9:05 pm on October 13, 2007, Sirdar commented:

Dawn has got a number of those too. I think I’ve only had a couple of them. I mark mine as spam and have taught Dawn to do the same.