[wp-hackers] <a rel= SPAM

[David Chait]

heh.  one of my quick antispam techniques is to look for
"</a>(any whitespace)<a"
to catch any back-to-back links, due to a particular spammer over the 
summer.

but yeah, that seems lame.

-d

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy Schestowitz" <r at schestowitz.com>
To: <hackers at wordpress.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] <a rel= SPAM


> It's possible that Google, not being able (or not willing rather) to
> index '???' or find the target, will permute it with the rel attribute.
> Or maybe it's just miserable incompetence.
>
> Roy
>
> -- 
> Roy Schestowitzcom
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>
>> I just got two spam comments with this:
>>
>> > <a rel=http://game.bucuo.net><b>???</b></a>
>> > <a rel=http://sms.bucuo.net><b>????</b></a>
>> > <a rel=http//v.bucuo.net><b>????</b></a>
>>
>> (and like a dozen other links like that)
>>
>> The links are obviously not clickable... so what was the point?  Will
>> Google index these malformed links?
>
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