Comments on: ALA and All the Link Love

By: Stephen Michael Kellat

Stephen Michael Kellat — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:45:56 +0000

Was MegaHAL turned loose on you at some point? That one syntactically correct yet meaningless bit of spam sounds like something that package would produce. See: http://megahal.alioth.debian.org/

By: walt

walt — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:01:55 +0000

Angel: Thanks. And I should note that all the comments I discuss in the post were caught by Spam Karma 2 and, I suspect, would also have been caught by Akismet.

I do try to check over Spam Karma’s catches once a day, because once in a very long while something legit gets flagged as spam. And because it’s sometimes fun to see the tactics. (I’m seeing more lately that just repeat the first sentence or two of the post–or of a previous comment.)

By: Angel

Angel — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:56:03 +0000

I think I got that same spammer, the one about the “burden” of your blog or other. I pretty much delete them as soon as I see them (e-mail notifies me of comments). Have not gone to moderation yet (I don’t get that many comments anyways), but on some spammy days, I do consider it.

Good luck finding a sponsor/opportunities. Hope maybe ALA is the ticket.

Best, and keep on blogging.