[ubuntu-uk] Spam

[Alan Pope]

Hi Dougie,

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 17:31 +0000, Dougie Richardson wrote:
> No that's what I mean - I find it hard to believe that people click on
> the links not that spambots send it out.

They don't. The spambots put URLs in the comments section of popular
blogs in order to boost the google pagerank of their site. That way when
someone searches for viagra or whatever they are more likely to get that
site returned.

Cheers,
Al.
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