Can anyone tell me what it might be about this particular post that seems to attract so many comments spammers, from hawkers of vi@gr@, to purveyers of p0rn, to on-line casinos and travel deals? I must get ten on it for every one on any other post.

I think nothing except that particular post made it onto some spammer's autocomment script. Since my understanding is that blog spam doesn't count on anyone reading it (it's just there to add links for Google to find), the actual content of the post it attaches to is irrelevant.

Oh, I'm sure that it has nothing to do with content. I was just wondering if there was some other attribute that it had. Are you saying that a lot of the spammers use the same script, with the same URLs?

I don't know how the porn software works but its possible it might look for and parse out certain 'dirty' words.

It seems certain that as the space shuttle debate continues, some prominent person will advocate the bold new adventure of a trip to Mars. When someone advocates that, this blog will demolish the idea in detail. Here's a quick preview. Last week the Wall Street Journal ran a letter to the editor blithely asserting that colonization of Mars could be accomplished "easily and cheaply." The Russian rocket manufacturer Energia recently estimated that the hardware for a stripped-down manned mission to Mars would weigh a minimum of 600 tons in low-earth orbit. At current space shuttle prices, it costs $15 billion to place 600 tons in low-earth orbit. That's just the initial launch cost for a stripped-down high-risk flight with a couple of people--spaceship and supplies are extra.

It's the exclamation mark at the end ,a bit phallic.

I've had a few random spam-e-posts based on keywords. For example, the phrase 'auto manufacturer' spawned spam posts for some industrialized process for retooling machines - with no contact info. Not even a link. Bizarre. I do get plenty of referrer links from porn sites though. I doubt they are really linking to my site, as the topic is Lotus Domino web development. It's the google hit count they're after. In that last instance, they are probably assuming I post a list of referrers which will wind up being cached by google, whome I've recently blocked anyway.

I'd say the attraction is that you haven't installed MT-Blacklist yet. Do so, and watch the problem vanish.

Don't you have better things to do than delete these one by one?

Actually, I do have MT-Blacklist installed, but the spammers keep coming up with new URLs.

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