monetizing blog spam
long ago, i came to the conclusion that the only solution to spam was to increase the cost of doing business with spam. to that end, i’ve set a nice, reasonable price point for the time it should take me to clean out the blog spam.
those of you posting comments here on the meta-roj blog will notice that i’ve included new terms of service.
there’s been a lot of talk lately about blog spam, and i’ve been mostly unaffected, with one notable (and one not so notable) exception.
for the rest of you, that actually have something useful to contribute to the material here, don’t be intimidated (any more than you already were intimidated, anyway!)…
in the meantime, as a bit of an experiment, and before i get so much that it becomes unmanagable, i’ve decided to give this a shot.
roj,
I used the hidden field method (from Burningird and it seems to have worked, except in one case. In that case I got an e-mail which said “Boris rules” without spam links. Subsequently, I got an e-mail with a spam link which included “By the way, who is this Boris?” in the text. I suppose there was some sort of search function for sites with the original mail, which I promptly deleted.
I have downloaded Jay Allen’s MT-Blacklist, but have not installed it.
I wonder, with all the interest and counter-measures in technically savvy people, whether any further investment of effort on my part is necessary. I may just sit back and enjoy the benefits of herd immunity.
gordon
Comment by gordon — October 19, 2003 @ 9:22 pm
this is about all the investment i’ll be making for now. since my corner of cyberspace is still mostly read by google, i don’t expect a lot of opportunity to “monetize my blog spam” – but i figured a little preemptive legal strike couldn’t hurt
besides, i know a collection agency that would love this job…
Comment by roj — October 19, 2003 @ 11:11 pm