I have a spam filter on the comments, and it catches most of the rubbish.

What puzzles me is what some of the spam actually is. There is stuff in Chinese, Japanese and Russian. How many people reading my blog would actually read those languages?

And why do you think someone would bother to post this (computer generated?) nonsense – on a very old blog entry:

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What are they selling?

Sometimes such nonsense has an “anonymous” signature that can be clicked on (which I never do), but surely – even if I did allow the comment to be published – no one would be idiot enough to click on the signature of such twaddle. And who’s even going to see it when it’s a comment on a blog post that I wrote 3 years ago?

If I was going to send out spam aimed at bringing people to my website, I think I could think up something better than a pathetic attempt like this one. And there are stacks of it, just as silly and futile. Boy, do some people follow poor business models.

And just for a real laugh, did any of you see this (via Making Light)?