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October 03, 2002
 Spam Comments
One of the advantages of going with MT comments is that I can see comments from older postings. And I'm finding out that a posting I did quite some time back when I was still living in San Francisco, is getting spam comments. The posting had to do with the problems I was having with Sprint and international long distance charges. The company charged me over 600.00 dollars for about three hours of conversation -- over 3.00 a minute. The end to the long distance bill saga is that after a bit of investigation into my options and legal rights, I ended up only having to pay relatively reasonable fees and not the excessive amount first charged. (Who says the Internet isn't useful?) However, the posting associated with the Sprint long distance problem is now getting spam comments. Take a peek and you'll see exactly which ones I'm talking about. Spam email is bad enough, but spam comments? Is this a case of any comments are better than none? (Answer: I don't think so.)
Posted by Bb at October 03, 2002 08:38 AM Trackback Count (0) Comments
Well, either it's spam or Gordon Jones is a very weird person. Posted by: Drwes on October 3, 2002 10:08 AMIf you capture his IP address this could lead to a Blog Comment Black List based on IP address. The other approach could be that the system could IM you comment in real time for you to approve before it goes live. More on this here:
I think we're looking at real spam here. I'm waiting for a deal from Nigeria, any minute. Or an offer to enlarge my breasts. Scott, I understand where you're coming from with the IM to okay comments, but I'd rather allow spam comments, then go through an approval process. Leave it to a telco related posting to get spammed. Hi Shelley, I'm commenting to let you know about an *all new*, *all inclusive* blogging package called BlogWonder. Now, BlogWonder is approved by the Blog Association of America (BAA) and have been proven effective in over 1,000 clinical trials. If you order now, you can get BlogWonder for the low price of $99.95. Call now and be on the road the success in the world of blogging! Posted by: Ryan on October 3, 2002 11:22 AMAt what point do you draw the line between friendly advice and spam? Posted by: Hormel on October 3, 2002 01:02 PMIsn't Scott Johnsons post spam? Posted by: Joe Blow on October 3, 2002 01:04 PMTo me spam implies some sort of automated routine like acquiring a million email addresses and blasting out an email. In this case, it looks to be very manual. Maybe the guy did a Google search on "sprint+bad+service", happened upon the discussion and plugged his outfit. I wouldn't call it spam. Posted by: pb on October 3, 2002 02:59 PMI kind of consider spam to be anything ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS, PUSHING A PRODUCT RATHER THAN BEING PART OF THE CONVERSATION. PROVIDING PHONE NUMBERS AND SELLING A PRODUCT RATHER THAN MEANINGFUL COMMENTS. USING LOTS OF EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But then, that's only an opinion. you were the recipient of the new open source spam package based on 802.11b wardriving software that infects windows 2000 laptops and posts unsolicited commercial solitations to hosts that according to a custom Google web service contain blog-style comments URLs and random dictionary words. income is generated by hijacking host's Amazon honor pay link via a "man in the middle" exploit. Posted by: the package has a posse on October 3, 2002 03:46 PMIt's not spam, it's "viral marketing." Spam is something posted over and over and over. It is the quantity of the messages, not the quality, that categorizes something as spam. Posted by: Charles Eicher on October 3, 2002 03:49 PMI don't see what you are talking about. These are kind of comments don't seem surprising since your post was about your problems with a long distance service. Maybe you should post your complaint to an appropriate website forum or newsgroup. If we do start to see spam in comments though, perhaps we should call it cuckolding. Go meme go! Go to Nigeria and get my money! Post a comment
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