new form of blog comment spam

**"* G* <d*@gmail.com>**

Just a head's up that the outsourcing crowd has a new form of blogging spam.
 It isn't machine-generated but is human generated.  A real person actually
makes a reasonable sounding post about one of your topics BUT the name of
the blogger is a product or website and the url posted is to a sales website
rather than a blog.
This is an attempt to pick up inbound links -and a very well disguised one
at that.  The sites in question were gardening websites but sales sites
plain and simple.

I let two of these get by me before I went "whoa!" - went back and deleted
them.  I have Akismet set up on my wordpress blog but I"m now going to be
looking for a ip ban plugin similar to the one I had installed on the forum
I run.  If anybody is running an ip ban plugin and thinks it works, please
id it here.  Thanks

Doug

Online Garden Publishing
http://blog.douggreensgarden.com
http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com
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