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Monday, 31 January 2005, 10:14 AM
Nothing personal? Nothing personal?

Fascinating ... and infuriating ... interview with an anonymous comment spammer link spammer search engine optimizer.

If you're affected by this spam, say because you run a blog, or a website, or like the other 99.9 per cent of Net users just come across the stuff, Sam explain the important thing to remember is it's nothing personal. They're not targeting you personally. They're just exploiting a weakness in a system which blossomed just at the time that Google cracked down on the previous method that spammers used, where huge "link farms" of their own web sites pointed circularly to each other to boost each others' ranking.

Nothing personal? That's such a great comfort. Not.

But what about the moral question, that you're using other peoples' bandwidth and blog space and abusing it by putting your commercial message there? "The question of morals is one for the individual. While it's legal, it will continue. It could be argued that a website owner is actually inviting content to their site when they allow comments."

Yes. Please. Come to my house to argue that. Wait, let me get my baseball bat, first ...


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Stupid Evil Bastard (31-Jan-05 11:42 AM): http://stupidevilbastard.com/index/seb/comments/see_sam_spam/ - See Sam Spam.

***Dave points us to an article on The Register where they interview a blog spammer about why he does what he does. Fair warning: If the topic of blog spammers raises your blood pressure then this article is probably one to avoid. In short, "Sa...

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