Forum spam posts

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: October 15th, 2006 Published in: Spam

I run a couple of forums and naturally I spend quite a lot of time deleting autogenerated spam posts. I’ve seen quite a change over the past year though - one lot of spam posts come in joke form and half the time (to the uninitiated) they even get some positive responses and aren’t removed!

But today is the first time I’ve seen an opt out message for forum admin. Linked to from the post was a message on their site saying:

We are not looking for your traffic or attention,
We just want to obtain links to our sites from abandoned internet resources.
If you dont want to see us anymore send your domain list at
abuse[at](removed).info

Being a sucker and probably getting my email address added to email spam lists, I sent a polite email asking them to remove the site URL from their DB. Will see how it goes.

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