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CDB Entry: Six Figures, A Jaguar-- the Luxurious Life of a Spammer

Tue, 01 Feb 2005 07:16:29 -0700

(Thanks to James Farmer for popping this article our way). The Register today unveils the life of the rich and infamous, "Interview with a link spammer": Sam - let's call our interviewee Sam, it's suitably anonymous - lives in a...

comment by: Stephen Downes

Tue, 01 Feb 2005 17:22:53 -0700

"The first waves of Trackback spam is hitting the shores of Kairos, Tom Hoffman's Tuttle SVC, Jabber Architecture, 99 Shades of Grey, and more to come.."

This may be a bad time to say "I told you so."

FWIW, Edu_RSS got slammed with aggregator feed submission spam over the weekend - this is the end of Technorati and Blogdex and the others...

Pull, not push. No exceptions.

comment by: Alan Levine

Tue, 01 Feb 2005 19:27:45 -0700

No, I enojy hearing "I told you so:, Stephen, along with a good dose of "Nya nya nya nya..."

Any we submission form that accepts text to be posted to a web page is open to URL spam insertion. I've been seeing it for months on our Maricopa Learning eXchange, on our web site feedback submission forms, some really silly places (because the URLs never go anywhere) that where the forms just email me stuff.

Okay, I hear "Pull, not push", but what does that mean? If I envison I "pull: approach to replicating TrackBack, does that mean I need to have software that will spider the web, look for references / links to my content, and then come back to my site and record that data? Help me understand your prescient ideas ;-)

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Wed, 02 Feb 2005 06:23:05 -0700

Excerpt: "Today also was distinguished by an aggressive wave of Trackback spam attacks (including ones on this weblog). Quoting Stephen Downes: "this is the end of Technorati, Blogdex (which is already featuring some of these sites in its top ten) and...
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Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:59:38 -0700

Excerpt: Consider the day's events: The Register posts an interview with a link spammer, regaling us with tales of the big money to be made pushing PPC (pills, porn, casinos), the many technical advantages spammers enjoy, and their near-limitless prospects for ...
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