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1. nstryker
   Posted May 18, 2006 at 6:42 pm | Permalink

   spam posts > real posts

2. JB
   Posted May 18, 2006 at 7:02 pm | Permalink

   What?

3. Anonymous
   Posted May 18, 2006 at 9:29 pm | Permalink

   He’s talking about the post being a spam post (on blogger) and it tracking back to a real post (yours).

4. JB
   Posted May 18, 2006 at 10:46 pm | Permalink

   Oh.

   I’m pretty sure most blog spam is via trackback these days (rather than “commenting”), at least on WordPress, so that part isn’t very surprising.

   It makes sense since there are fewer restrictions you can put on trackbacks (which are designed to be submitted by automated systems, very similar to spam) as opposed to comments, which are designed to be submitted by real people.

   The thing that doesn’t make sense is how in the heck Akismet can flag this as OK. I thought their big advantage was their huge database that they can leverage to evaluate these submissions, but I think I can safely say that if this totally obvious spam can slip by, their filters suck.

5. nstryker
   Posted May 19, 2006 at 8:59 am | Permalink

   actually, my comment was about the fact that your’ve been posting about spam a lot.

6. JB
   Posted May 19, 2006 at 11:01 am | Permalink

   That’s actually what I thought at first, but then I checked and noticed that I only have 3 posts about spam for this month (out of 12), and only 4 total in the last 7 months, so I figured you couldn’t possibly mean that.

7. nstryker
   Posted May 21, 2006 at 5:49 pm | Permalink

   well, when you post 20 things per month, three things in one month on the same subject makes a trend!

8. JB
   Posted May 22, 2006 at 12:44 pm | Permalink

   Perhaps. I won’t worry about it too much though. Maybe it just seems that way because I haven’t been doing as many “political” posts lately.