Comment spam @ Radio Free Blogistan

July 25, 2003

Christian Crumlish

Scot Hacker's getting the comment spam (such as a link to a zip-code lookup service) at his Birdhous blog and he thinks he knows why:

So essentially someone is hijacking my comments system (and probably lots of other blogs' comments systems) to abuse Google's algorithms.

Posted by xian at July 25, 2003 9:27 AM

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