[SURBL-Discuss] RE: Applying SURBL against blog comment spamm ers

[Chris Santerre]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rob McEwen [mailto:rob at powerviewsystems.com]
>Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 9:54 AM
>To: 'SURBL Discussion list'; 'Jeff Chan'; 'SATalk'
>Subject: RE: [SURBL-Discuss] RE: Applying SURBL against blog comment
>spammers
>
>
>>SO I say, go ahead and add them.
>
>Chris... where have you been? We have had extensive 
>discussions recently
>where we all concluded that we have to make getting the FPs 
>down a priority
>and the only way to do this is to (gulp), allow some 
>graymarketers loose
>(those who do a some or much spamming but who do have some 
>legitimate uses).
>It wasn't an easy decision... but the need to get SURBL to a 
>"set it and
>forget it" point is mission critical.
>
>>However I would like to see an example of a spam'd blog.
>
>Happens all the time in the comments section of these blogs. 
>Not often with
>blogger.com, more often with Moveable Type blogs because (1) 
>these link to
>the comments section, (2) the comments section is usually 
>permanent with MT,
>and (3) these comments then get indexed by search engines.
>
>It is this last thing that is key. These blog spammers don't 
>seriously think
>that they are going to sell much based on human beings viewing 
>their spam.
>They just want search engine position because Google sees a link from
>such-in-such blog to the spammers web site as a "vote" by 
>such-in-such blog
>for that spammers site, thus raising the spammer's site's rankings on
>Google.
>
>Mischievous... but a very powerful marketing technique!
>
>For examples, see the following:
>
>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22diet+pills%22+


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--Chris