Spam Explosion in the Blogosphere

[mandy]

Boing Boing would allow its readers to leave comments and engage in a discussion on the wildly popular blog, if it weren't for spam...

While technology and legislation may have made spam in e-mail manageable, there is still some way to go when it comes to keeping it out of blogs, people in the industry said. There is some software dedicated to blocking unwanted posts, and there are efforts under way to reduce the economic incentive behind them. But at the same time, spammers are coming up with ways to trick filters or to fool bloggers into allowing the spam.

Keeping out unwanted messages costs bloggers time and bother, at the very least. If it's a commercial blog, it may also cost money for a filtering service. And beyond that, there's a cost to the blog services, which have to develop spam-blocking technology.

Most spam postings on blogs look a lot like unwanted commercial e-mail...

full article: http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-6059672.html?part=rss&tag=6059672&subj=news

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