On 2/7/07, Mark Clements <gmane(a)kennel17.co.uk>
wrote:
The similarities are that the pages titles always
contain index.php?title=xx
(with various depths of /w or /wiki) and that the message is congratulating
us on our site. The user is always an anon, but without being able to
I think spambots use thes "congratulatory" messages to maximise their
chances of staying on the site. Which of these would you[1] delete:
Check out my site! http://...
You have an awesome site! I spent a while here and it's really
fantastic. The quality of information is amazing. Would you be
interested in checking out my site? http://
Steve
[1] Ok, not "you", but...
Yep, and in Movable Type's master comments list, it gets cropped to "You
have an awesome site! I spend a while here and it's..." (And they were
just getting to the good part.) You have to open up the comment to read
it in full, and they're banking on people being too busy to do that. I
assume other blogging software does something similar.
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