Comments on: Compliment Comments and Spam http://www.fencepost.net/2009/07/compliment-comments-spam/ Thoughts & Resources on IT Consulting for Small Medical Practices Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:39:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: japan style http://www.fencepost.net/2009/07/compliment-comments-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-53485 japan style Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:00:25 +0000 http://www.fencepost.net/?p=227#comment-53485 I do agree with all the ideas you have presented in your post. They are really convincing and will certainly work. Still, the posts are very short for starters. Could you please extend them a bit from next time? Thanks for the post!! <em>[Here's an excellent example of the genre! I've disabled the email address used, but it's a seemingly-harmless post with a URL link back to a Discover Magazine article. The only reason for someone to post something like this is to get the email address "approved" for posting to the site so it can be used for automated posting of spam in the future. --Alan]</em> I do agree with all the ideas you have presented in your post. They are really convincing and will certainly work. Still, the posts are very short for starters. Could you please extend them a bit from next time? Thanks for the post!!

[Here's an excellent example of the genre! I've disabled the email address used, but it's a seemingly-harmless post with a URL link back to a Discover Magazine article. The only reason for someone to post something like this is to get the email address "approved" for posting to the site so it can be used for automated posting of spam in the future. --Alan]

]]> By: manitoito http://www.fencepost.net/2009/07/compliment-comments-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-906 manitoito Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:35:59 +0000 http://www.fencepost.net/?p=227#comment-906 Authentic words, some truthful words man. Totally made my day!! <em><strong> Edited by Alan:</strong> Here's a perfect example of such a comment, and so appropriately placed. I've changed the email address to prevent further posting and removed the website URL from this message.</em> Authentic words, some truthful words man. Totally made my day!!

Edited by Alan: Here’s a perfect example of such a comment, and so appropriately placed. I’ve changed the email address to prevent further posting and removed the website URL from this message.

]]> By: Alan http://www.fencepost.net/2009/07/compliment-comments-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Alan Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:18:59 +0000 http://www.fencepost.net/?p=227#comment-79 As an example, I have a comment blocked as spam with just the content <blockquote>Hi, Interesting, I`ll quote it on my site later. Thank you Elcorin</blockquote> Nothing really notable, except the return address is @mail.ru and it's a comment on my post <a href="http://www.fencepost.net/2009/07/stimulus-open-source-vs-proprietary-emr/" rel="nofollow">Article on Open Source vs. Proprietary EMRs and Stimulus</a> which is unlikely to be of much interest outside the US. I predict that if I approved this comment I'd have a large number of spam comments show up within hours. As an example, I have a comment blocked as spam with just the content

Hi,
Interesting, I`ll quote it on my site later.
Thank you
Elcorin

Nothing really notable, except the return address is @mail.ru and it’s a comment on my post Article on Open Source vs. Proprietary EMRs and Stimulus which is unlikely to be of much interest outside the US. I predict that if I approved this comment I’d have a large number of spam comments show up within hours.

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