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Spammers Say the Darndest Things - November 30, 2007

&8220;Please do not delete this. Money obtained from spam will go to children in uganda.&8221; Uh huh. I&8217;ll get right on that.
http://blog.akismet.com/2007/11/30/spammers-say-the-darndest-things/

Letting Spam In For a Day - November 28, 2007

Jesper Rnn-Jensen is planning to remove all spam protection from his blog on December 15. It&8217;s easy to forget just how much anti-spam solutions help bloggers. It&8217;s not just Akismet &8212; there are many other methods from CAPTCHA to Spam Karma. It was not so long ago that a blogger could wake to find a couple ...
http://blog.akismet.com/2007/11/28/letting-spam-in-for-a-day/

It really is spam - November 27, 2007

Back when spamming started it was a very crude business. Comments left would consist of many links around one subject - &8220;Buy my porn&8221; or &8220;Buy my pills.&8221; These posts were very obviously spam and blog owners deleted them when they saw them. At some point the spammers changed tactics. Everyone likes a compliment and we ...
http://blog.akismet.com/2007/11/27/it-really-is-spam/