[ubuntu-uk] Spam

[Kris Douglas]

On 13/11/2007, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
>
> 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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>
But why would us whole hearty people require viagra anyway :P

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Kris Douglas
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