[ubuntu-uk] Spam

[Dougie Richardson]

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 18:10 +0000, Alan Pope 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.

Yes and that's why it's all the more incidious. Menieres is a rare
condition and accurate information on it is hard to get especially from
a sufferers point of view.

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