New spam attacts with links to 'respectable sites'

05 November '05 - 01:40

New spam attacts with links to 'respectable sites' - what is the purpose of those?

Since two days I get hit a bit by a new kind of spam - full of links to 'respectable' sites like quotationpage.com, linux magazin etc. Other than bringing webmasters to enforce captchas or others on every side available, I would see no reason for a spammer to distribute this kind of spam. Any thoughts on this?

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Perhaps to taint your spam-checking software?
Pete Prodoehl 07 November '05 - 11:01

Hm. I have found nothing to prevent them so far. :(
Nicole 07 November '05 - 17:39

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