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The Tsunami of Spam

March 16th, 2011

By Tom Carter Comment spam, as opposed to the e-mail spam that pops into your inbox, is the junk that often appears in the comments sections of blogs and other websites that provide access to the public, e.g., newspaper websites. It’s like a tsunami — it comes, and it keeps on coming, inexorably inundating a […]

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Tags: Akismet, comment, commercial, e-mail, internet, spam, troll
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The Curse of Spam

April 16th, 2009

Anyone who runs a website with submitted content, like Opinion Forum, suffers from the curse of spam. We’re only about five months old, and it took the comment spammers a while to find us. Now we’re under daily attack. So far, we’ve been hit by almost exactly as many spam comments as we’ve received valid comments. […]

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Tags: Akismet, spam
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