Interview with a link spammer
Link spam, aka comment spam, is evil. Trackback spam is worse.
If you have any doubt that spammers are the tail pipe suckers of the Net, read The Register’s “Interview with a link spammer”. That cured you of your aversion, didn’t it?
The thing that really steams me about these jerks is the time they waste for thousands of other people and businesses. If you have a blog, you have to make the choice between allowing visitors to leave comments (and thereby having a two way conversation rather than a one way dictation) or else disabling comments and trackbacks completely. Filters only go so far; if you allow comments, even filtered, you’re going to spend some time removing spam. And unfortunately, though I’m a fan of nofollow, trackback and other types of spam will persist even if it’s widely implemented.
Epilog: As I was writing this post, I received a trackback ping from one of those damn casino sites. Argh!
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BillDay.com 
i’ve been dealing with them for months. but i finally got lucky and, as
i wrote at netaloid.com today, i found a way to cut these guys off at
the wallet. at least the worst of the bunch. these guys are spamming as
affiliate marketers of the big online casinos. but the casinos can’t
afford to affiliate with a spammer. which gives us a big stick to drive
them out.
Thanks for your comment, Loid. I signed your petition via your blog comments just now.
I strongly encourage everyone to read your description of the problem and to consider signing your petition, too.