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Comment from fred on 2009-10-30

2009-10-30T23:46:39Z

I'd take it as a godd sign. It means you're getting traffic.

Spam is a way of life. In fact, over 85% of user submissions are spam. It's a force, a phenomenon, that will never go away.

I have a site, a personal aside, that encourages it- part joke, part experiment.

You can leave your mark here

My unsolicited advice: get over it!

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Comment from Tim Hohs on 2009-01-27

2009-01-28T01:01:42Z

Since I started using Gmail I hardly ever get spam. Maybe once or twice a month one will get through, and for some reason it's usually an obvious one, like a Nigerian style scam. I check the spam folder but haven't had any real mail dumped there yet. Why does Gmail's spam filter work so well?

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Comment from Greg Bulmash on 2009-01-27

2009-01-27T17:05:36Z

Bunny, the reason for spam comments on your blog is simple: to get a backlink to their spammy site which Google may use as a positive factor in calculating the worth of their site. That's also why they may scrape your site, steal paragraphs of your content, and link to you in the hopes of a pingback link. It's all in their attempts to fool Google and other search engines into believing their site has something worthwhile on it.

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Comment from Bunny got Blog on 2008-11-13

2008-11-13T15:55:55Z

I am so frustrated with getting comments from spammers that scraped an article I wrote.

My boyfriend says I should let it bother me coz no one will see it and it is a back link.This confuses me.

I don't want to be linked with the type of blog that has spam,scraped and sponged me.

I have set the comments to moderation and still find this week a daily comment from the same domain with a different IP address.

Do you have any suggestions for me.Just what is the purpose of hitting a blog site with spam comments?

Thank you
Bunny

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Comment from Gordon Mitchell on 2006-12-15

2006-12-16T02:13:42Z

I believe that there are so many people on the internet who are looking for ways to promote their business or program, that they sign up to the so called free website submission programs where they give their own email address to join. Then there are thousands of money hungry people who will then send emails to them, most of which are junk.

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Comment from Alan R Parsons on 2006-09-03

2006-09-03T13:37:08Z

In my experience, the reasons that there is so much SPAM are:
1. Legislation is required to prevent unsolicited e-mail.
2. Current Anti-Spam software is 90% useless.

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Comment from Andrew Denny on 2006-02-09

2006-02-09T11:06:06Z

For me the problem isn't that the spam's unsolicited, but that it's poor quality, illiterate, incoherent.

I don't like to frighten you all, but there's a gap a million miles wide for intelligent, literate, sophisticated and, above all, entertaing spam. When the villains latch on to this, they'll *really* clean up! People will always forgive someone who's entertaining.

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