October 27th, 2003
Blog Spam
Spam Rapidly Increasing In Weblog Comments
dsurber writes “BBC News has a nice article discussing ‘flyblogging’, the phenomenon of spammers leaving advertising-related posts on personal weblogs. The writer comments: ‘None of the other blogs I contribute to or run has been affected yet, but I can only assume it is a matter of time before the spammers move in, as they did first with UseNet and then with e-mail. It depresses me to think that any open medium can be so easily undermined by people with no scruples, no sense of responsibility and no idea of the damage they are doing.'” It seems a little surreal that people are having to develop anti-spam weblog tools.