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February 20, 2005

Web Site News - Trackback Spam Generation 2

by Ferdinand T Cat

Trackbacks are designed to reward other bloggers who link to you, by providing an automatic link to their site. Naturally, I'm a big believer in rewarding other people for helping me to look important, so I'm a big trackback booster.

The dark side is that the Poker People have learned how to use the facility for spamming purposes. Previously, the trackbacks were just long strings of links. Lately though, they've been showing a little more creativity.

For example

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. by free online poker

 

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery? by texas holdem

And my favorite

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. by online poker

And as always with these people, I ask the question: isn't the link to the poker site kind of a clue that the excerpt is totally bogus?

This plague will not end until we find some way to make the spammers feel a financial consequence for their activities. So this is my proposal: instead of indecency fines aimed at TV stations, have the FCC institute a stupidity fine aimed at spammers. If a spam message is so dumb that even a four-year-old wouldn't be fooled, they have to pay $500K per transmission. Not only will it cut down on the spam, but in the first few weeks we'd pay off the national debt.

Respectfully submitted

Ferdinand T. Cat


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We are being swamped with spam at every turn it seems. I wish Squarespace offered trackbacks, but as of yet they don't.


Posted by: FTS at February 21, 2005 8:44 AM

HTML is not allowed in comments; however, if you put in a raw URL (http://www.somewhere.com/page.html) it will automatically be converted to a link.. Also, it is likely your comment will not appear unless you refresh the page manually after posting it.

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