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   M. J. Young
   Moderator

   I noticed on the front page that there was a comment on an old article, so I went to see it, here. It looks like the work of a bot. The name "Nick" was hyperlinked to some sort of automotive site. I edited out both the link and the e-mail address, but left the comment (it was rather inoccuous, and editing was readily obvious while I didn't see the ability to delete until after I'd done the editing). Probably next time I would just delete the comment, but I thought I'd alert you to the possibility that there's a bot program out there that has figured out how to comment here.

   I'll keep on it.

   --M. J. Young

   Thu Aug 30 2007 11:51 pm #
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   Aaron Powell
   Administrator

   Yep, it looks like there is a bot. Which is actually pretty common. The comment spam blocker grabbed 66 today, all either "nice" or "interesting" or something of that sort. It's a good system but every now and then one slips through.

   Thanks for pointing it out. I've deleted it.

   Fri Aug 31 2007 2:04 am #
3. 

   M. J. Young
   Moderator

   I deleted comments by a couple of Spammers, but there is a comment here that seems to be outside my jurisdiction--no edit link when I view it. I thought I should call it to your attention.

   --M. J. Young

   Fri Sep 7 2007 2:40 am #
4. 

   Aaron Powell
   Administrator

   I deleted it. There's a spambot hammering us right now, with something like 400 spams a day. Almost all of them are getting caught, but I've been deleting them as they slip through. Thanks for pointing this one out.

   Fri Sep 7 2007 1:18 pm #

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