On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 14:19, Ash Berlin <ash_c...@firemirror.com> wrote:
> > One my blog got hit with (if 300 counts as a hit) was a series of > > short comments like that but with exact one misspelling consisting of > > a letter transposition. No link associated with it. Quite weird - > > wasn't sure what it was trying to achieve, maybe poisoning > > bayes/cluster filters with broken (but unusual) words so that they'd > > be "learnt" over time as signals for ham. > > > > Paul > > > > "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained through > incompetency." > > The other possibilities is some numpty bought an automated tool and forgot > to enter the url properly. Yeah, it wasn't the same data each time, it was a lot of different phrases, some of which were quite idiomatic. But: exactly one transposition misspelling (in a different word each time)--looked too deliberate to be a mistake/incompetency