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	Spam Kings Blog
		In Spam Kings, author and investigative journalist Brian McWilliams delivers a compelling account of the cat-and-mouse game played by spam entrepreneurs (including the notorious Davis Wolfgang Hawke, "Dr. Fatburn," and Scott Richter) in search of easy fortunes and the cyber-vigilantes who are trying to stop them.
		But despite such progress, my spam folders are still filling up with hundreds of spams each day, and many of the same names are on the Spamhaus list of the world's biggest spammers.
		Some recent drug spams are apparently coming from webmail providers including Frys.com and some public libraries, such as one in Maryland.
	spamkings.oreilly.com (1124 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| How spammers are targeting blogs
		Blogs evolved out of a desire to remove barriers to online conversation, and restricting their ability to add comments would seriously reduce the sort of lively debate that makes them so interesting.
		After all, a public blog with an accessible comments page is hardly a closed system, and even if you have an acceptable use policy saying what sort of postings you welcome, that is not legally binding either.
		A blog is a place to express your views in a public arena, and having some unknown people fill the space with advertising is the online equivalent of finding that someone has pinned a card advertising "private massage" to your coat when you were not looking.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/technology/3210623.stm (983 words)

	Spam in blogs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spam in blogs (also called simply blog spam or comment spam) is a form of spamdexing.
		Spam Huntress The Norwegian Spam Huntress - Ann Elisabeth
		Spam Blocker Crawler Free public service for scanning guestbooks and send abuse in the Google and spammer's hoster.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blog_spam (1595 words)

	Blog spam considered dangerous
		Spam blogs (splogs) and spam comment on blogs are a growing problem.
		Now Google is introducing some features to fight this, including a too to require word verification for comments and a flag as objectionable feature on the blogger Navbar that could be used to slam splogs.
		and 5-digit blog spam and 93% of blog comments are spam and...
	ebiquity.umbc.edu /blogger/?p=331 (350 words)

	The Blog From Another Dimension: Blog Spam Solution
		I should provide a wrap-up on how the blog spam is being handled, in case this could help others with an onerous amount of spam on their sites.
		The spam is in the form of links either in the comment body or in the URL link allowed under the visitor's name at the bottom of the comment.
		But the ability to spam in massive quantities is so cheap that spammers don't care if the return is minimal; it's still worth their few bucks because it will likely get them enough to pay for the spamming and then some.
	www.blogd.com /archives/001326.html (2363 words)

	Weblog spam [dive into mark]
		For all that we laugh at the spam that SpamAssassin catches, ha ha aren’t those spammers stupid, I can’t believe anybody falls for that… yes, the messages are stupid, but spam works, and spammers aren’t as stupid as you think.
		Spam works and it is big business, and spammers are increasingly organized and increasingly business-savvy.
		Existing tools probably can’t be used as-is. Email spam fighting relies a lot on the structure of an email, the chain of headers that give away so much information to the trained eye, and none of that information is available in weblog spam.
	diveintomark.org /archives/2003/11/15/more-spam (1350 words)

	Concerning Spam \| Security \| Learning Movable Type
		One way to cut down on blog spam is to reduce the opportunities by closing the ability to comment on blog posts older than X number of days.
		Used in conjunction with a spam filter such as Spam Lookup or Akismet, the MTAutoBan plugin can help automatically stop spam floods by banning or redirecting comments from IP addresses that have been identified as generating junk comments.
		New Comment Spam Technique - Adam Kalsey notes that spammers are creating comment spam with links to legitimate sites that have been spammed to get the page rank up for those links.
	www.learningmovabletype.com /a/000246concerning_spam (1842 words)

	Google To Blame For Spam-Related Blog Entries, Some Say - News by InformationWeek (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Oct 18, 2005 05:39 PM A bump-up in the number of spam blogs on Google's Blogspot has drawn the ire of prominent bloggers, and at least one blog search service has stopped indexing posts on the hosting service.
		The size of the splog -- for spam + blog -- surge was also up for grabs, said the two experts.
		By Sifry's account, approximately 39,000 new fake and spam blogs appeared in the last two weeks as 805,000 new blogs were created.
	www.informationweek.com /story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=172302267 (861 words)

	Blogger Buzz: On Spam
		However, spam is still being created and, as was widely noted, Blogger was especially targeted this weekend.
		One group of folks who are particularly affected by blog spam are those who use blog search services and those who subscribe to feeds of results from those services.
		Greg from Blogdigger (one of the folks who consumes blog data) points out that "ultimately the responsibility for providing a quality service rests on the shoulders of the individual services themselves, not Google and/or Blogger." However, we think by sharing what we've learned about spam on Blogger we can hopefully improve the situation for everyone.
	buzz.blogger.com /2005/10/on-spam.html (569 words)

	JM's Blog: Spam & Scam Archives
		This is a more sophisticated setup of this blog comment spam prevention tactic.
		It's of course legitimate to publish you email address on a personal blog, but there are few reasons why you should not protect it from spam.
		The second type of Adsense spam is the act of some ad publishers, and as Google gets revenues from publishers spam, it seems they are far less concerned about it.
	w2.syronex.com /jmr/blog/spam_scam (1815 words)

	Dave’s Blog » Spam Karma 2.3
		It is meant to stop all forms of automated Blog spam effortlessly, while remaining as unobtrusive as possible to regular commenters.
		External plugins (including those bundled with Spam Karma 2) are the property of their respective developers and, by default, subject to the same distribution rules.
		What this mean in practice: Spam Karma is “free software”, in that it is absolutely free to download, free to use and even free to tinker with (although I typically would require any modifications made to it to be clearly indicated to potential users).
	unknowngenius.com /blog/wordpress/spam-karma (1240 words)

	Learning Movable Type: Concerning Spam (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Many people list "referrals" on their site publicly, so by spamming referral logs, not only does the spammer get a link on your referral log (which is picked up by Google) but may even get a link on your main page.
		If you get a comment with spam that is not already listed, when you receive an email notification of the comment, you can click a link to invoke MT-fllist, remove the comment, and add the commenter's URL to your fllist.
		New Comment Spam Technique - Adam Kalsey notes that spammers are creating comment spam with links to legitimate sites that have been spammed to get the page rank up for those links.
	www.elise.com /mt/archives/000246concerning_spam.php (1489 words)

	Is spam permitted on Blogger?
		Blogs engaged in this behavior are called spam blogs, and can be recognized by their irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text, along with a large number of links, usually all pointing to a single site.
		Spam blogs cause various problems, beyond simply wasting a few seconds of your time when you happen to come across one.
		The same classifiers are used to require an extra word verification field on the posting form for potential spam blogs.
	help.blogger.com /bin/answer.py?answer=42577 (379 words)

	MailChannels \| Anti-Spam Blog
		Their spam filters were getting rid of it so the end users didn’t see it but the servers were doing all they could to process backlogged traffic.
		Implementing email traffic shaping in front of their servers dramatically dropped spam from 70 percent of all processed traffic down to 20 percent overnight as a result they turned off 4 of the 6 servers they were using to handle all inbound mail.
		While filtering is an effective at separating spam from email, it is only one layer in a multi-tiered anti-spam architecture designed to leverage various technologies suited to each task.
	blog.mailchannels.com (1108 words)

	EVula's Blog
		My primary method of elimination was to close up older blogs and posts from comments, which has worked wonders; spam has taken a significant drop since then.
		It was confined to a single blog (Audiophile's), and while this meant the struggle lacked the intensity of the comment spam battle, it was still rigorous, by which I of course mean mind-numbingly dull and tedious.
		The only spam that remains is on Audiophile's blog, in the form of ping spam.
	blog.evula.net /evula (911 words)

	Qumana Blog :: Will blog spam cool blogging's fire? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Arieanna and I were looking for content for a client's blog, we were gobsmacked at the number of spam blogs on certain topics (home repair and improvement was the worst).
		All these together concerns me. Slogs could reduce the overall value of blogs, too much chaff vs wheat, and comment and trackback spam could discourage people from keeping their blogs going.
		Blogs are just hitting the mainstream in a big way.
	blog.qumana.com /blog/_archives/2005/9/6/1202398.html (673 words)

	Blog Comment Spam on the Rise (by Jeremy Zawodny)
		If an actual human posts comment spam, I'll delete the comment and ban the source IP address of the poster, or perhaps the entire range if they seem to be coming from the same subnet.
		And even if they know, if their spamming process is sufficiently automated, they won't care, because it's probably more effort for them to remove your site from their target list than to just leave it in.
		My blog is brought to you by the folks at iphpBB, providing anyone with a free phpBB forum.
	jeremy.zawodny.com /blog/archives/000984.html (4757 words)

	Porno blog spam turns nasty \| The Register
		Spam comments deposited using the technique include a link to a spamvertised website.
		Last week spam advertising of "incest, rape and animal sex" pornography was posted on a web log which was set up to discuss the Draft ID Cards Bill.
		Blog Aggregator software is prone to the same kinds of cross site scripting attacks as sometimes affect web browser software.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2004/08/04/porno_blog_spam (727 words)

	Big spike in blog comment spam?
		For some reason the number of spam blog comments making it through our Akismet plugin has gone way up in the past two weeks.
		Maybe there is new comment spam software out there that uses Google blog search to access RSS feeds of the 100 most recent posts for a given blog.
		Related posts: 5-digit blog spam and Blog comment spam with plagiarized text: hard to spot and Blog spam considered dangerous and...
	ebiquity.umbc.edu /blogger/2006/07/15/big-spike-in-blog-comment-spam (422 words)

	Internet Security Zone Blog: Phishing & Spam
		Ideally you shouldn't even click on spam emails or ones that are obviously impersonating valid sites, as this likely will confirm that you have a valid email address, resulting in more spam.
		These are spammed emails claiming someone has discovered unclaimed money, found you a job, or needs someone in the US to receive a $10 Million dollar bank transfer.
		The MO is the same, spam people with fraudlent email asking them to call their bank and confirm their account details, the customer calls what they believe is their bank and ends up disclosing their account details to the automated phone system (and thereby the phishers).
	blog.zonelabs.com /blog/phishing_spam/index.html (4772 words)

	Spam Links Blog
		The spam was sent on the 1st, and the domain was registered by "Chesterton Holdings" on the 2nd, through the registrar Name King.
		On the second occasion a week later a spam this time certainly from Yambo Financials was affected.
		The uncannily accurate wording on the would-be spam or phishing site may be influenced by people searching in the box on the page for words relevant to the phish or spam that lead them to the page.
	spamlinks.net /blog (1685 words)

	WebAIM: Blog - Spam-free accessible forms
		Most spam bots are in existence to either post URL’s of web sites in an effort to increase traffic or increase their search engine ranking or they are attempting to hijack your form to send spam messages to you or others.
		Akismet is commonly used for filtering spam on blog comments (it has blocked nearly 14,000 spam comments to this blog in the last 9 months!), but it can be used successfully for nearly any web form.
		In short, if $spam is true, then you want to alert the user of the problem, identify the form fields that were problematic, provide easy access to those fields to allow the user to fix the problems, then allow them to re-submit the form.
	www.webaim.org /blog/spam_free_accessible_forms (5341 words)

	Live Search : Working Together Against Blog Spam
		Most blog readers probably never notice the spam and#8212; unless their favorite blogger stops accepting comments altogether, inhibiting the free-flowing dialogue that's supposed to be at the core of blogging.
		After terrific email spam filters that think that an email from your mama is spam just because she asks you to call her, and so you will never read it, now the "engeniuos" rel=follow attribute will keep all the legitimate commenters away from the blogs and will encourage the spammers to spam even more.
		Moderation is the ONLY way to fight spam and to not penalize the honests: spammers have their own fllist of sites being difficult to be spammed; start moderating and you will see that spammers will stay away from your site.
	blogs.msdn.com /msnsearch/archive/2005/01/18/nofollow_tags.aspx (8155 words)

	NetWizard's Blog: spam Archives (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Earlier today I ran across a post at Brian Krepp's security blog at the Washington Post about an add-on called "SiteAdvisor" which claims to provide helpful feedback when browsing as to whether a specific site is secure or not, whether it carries spyware, etc.
		Andy mentions on his blog that the IETF rejected SPF community's appeals against Sender-ID. One appeal was focused on the fact the SPF records are being reused by Sender-ID in an incompatible fashion.
		The logic behind IESG's rejection is very simple: from their point of view both of these are experiments and thus, are subject to a lower standard of compatability.It remains to be seen whether the SPF community appeals to IAB.
	www.shaftek.org /blog/archives/cat_spam.html (2328 words)

	Dvorak Uncensored » Blog Comment Spam Fix
		Most people who run blogs have issues with comment spam in their blogs and there are all sorts of fixes.
		SpamKarma is the only spam plugin I’ve used on any of my blogs for months now, and it’s killed all but maybe 10 spam posts (and those 10 were completely random letters - not even a poker link) with only 2 false positives in that time.
		It was in regards to referer spam for which this absolutely doesn’t work but I still looked at, evaluated and rejected this option as a general anti-spam measure for the following reasons.
	www.dvorak.org /blog/?p=2904 (3592 words)

	Buy Blog Comments - A Sick New Comment Spam Service Launches
		I just had a rather disturbing email from a company advertising a new service called Buy Blog Comments (no follow tags used) promoting a new service offering to leave comment spam on blogs for those wanting to increase their SEO ranking.
		I don’t know whats worse, the fact he is making a living from spamming blogs or the fact he is taking money for a service that has no chance in hell of actually working.
		If they are writing the comment for a blog that is relevant to the niche of the blog they are being paid to comment on, then the blog owner might not be able to tell that it’s spam.
	www.problogger.net /archives/2007/07/09/buy-blog-comments-a-sick-new-comment-spam-service-launches (12613 words)

	Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO » SEO Mistakes: Spam in other languages
		I was thinking about this spam issue on Google and throughout the Internet and it’s such a massive problem and yet elimination of it seems quite slow in comparison to the abuse.
		Spam is spam wherever it is. Why not just say that your non-english spam filtering isn’t as good as the english one so you’re trying harder at it now?
		I have been reading this blog for sometime trying to learn how to build my pages right from the start so that google is satisfied, so that the pages are correct and so that people will come to my sites.
	www.mattcutts.com /blog/seo-mistakes-spam-in-other-languages (11847 words)

	Official Google Blog: Preventing comment spam
		If you're a blogger (or a blog reader), you're painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites' search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like "Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site." This is called comment spam, we don't like it either, and we've been testing a new tag that blocks it.
		This isn't a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it's just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists.
		We're working primarily with blog software makers for now because blogs are such a common target.
	googleblog.blogspot.com /2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html (578 words)

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