Comments on: 7 worst blog scraper tricks

By: TW

TW — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:30:20 +0000

it can’t be a SECRET if it’s on the Internet.

That reminds me of Disney’s “best kept secret” - so well kept it is plastered over buses, billboards and newspapers…

By: TW

TW — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:45:04 +0000

Ironically, my previous post was marked as spam by Akismet. Such is the price for repeating such blatant spambot-scraper comments!

By: TW

TW — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:42:38 +0000

Daniel (k.daniel@msn.com) sends about 10 comments a day which all read:

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Why Dont You Blog?, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

Same message, same email and same IP each time. Comical more than anything else.

The other scrapers have messages which read along the lines of:

UBULOG /AkabaneVisionFILMWeb /I LOVE BMX wrote an interesting post today!.Here’s a quick excerpt …[and then they post your message under the false nom de blog]

I wonder if it ever actually works…