Archive for May 26, 2007

Comment Spam: From American Universities?

Posted in OAImages News by John E. Pannell on May 26th, 2007 at 7:24 am

The software powering this blog has now caught over 1500 spam comments, lately averaging about 30 spam per day.   As the blog become more established this will probably only increase.  Only one or two spam comments have gotten through and I deleted those quickly.

The spam attempts are for the usual products and services that are commonly pushed through bulk/junk emails.   If you’re active on the internet, you know what they are.   I am noticing something interesting though with a lot of these messages. 

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