The SF site BowieTreks has discovered a new and apparently burgeoning form of spam.
I just checked the most recent list of Recently Updated Blogs on Typepad, and found eight of the ten entries to be what I think of as bogus blogs, such as [link to bogus blog omitted]. These blogs consist of a list of links which lead to a list of ads for the topic in the blog title. All eight of these blogs were created today, none have any About information, so there is no way to tell who is creating them. They all look exactly alike, as if they were created by a software program from a form. These bogus blogs are proliferating like rabbits and clogging the Updated blogs list. They use bandwidth and other resources that could be used for legitimate blogs, and use our time when we click on them, thinking they might be a legitimate, interesting blog. Does this bother anyone else???
*sigh* Typepad has begun automating defenses against comment spam; about two-thirds of the on-line casino promotions that try to sneak into my comments sections now don’t make it through the gateway, saving me the trouble of deleting them manually. It was inevitable, I suppose, that the spammers would just invent a new tactic. */sigh*
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