Interview with a comment spammer

Charles Arthur at the Register has an exclusive interview with a comment spammer from England which exposes the motivation of the cretins that bombard our blogs.

A must read in understanding what bloggers are facing.

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  3. By TallTroll posted on August 5, 2005 at 11:15 am
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    I’m virtually certain I know “Sam”, and he’s right – the SE’s caused the problem, and can’t be bothered to clean up after themselves. “Sam” and his friends are just exploiting the loopholes, just an updated version of HTML comment spam, and doc creation date spam