From my  experience  it's trackback spam, or using the trackback api. I
think this is a huge problem for blogs.
Our service gets hundreds of thousands of spam messages. Blocking by IP and
keywords gets you only so far. What is really needed is some statistical
filtering system like CRM114 (or dspam but that is for mail) Problem is
these systems are not easy to deploy and maintain.

Cheers,

-Daniel Fisla
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On 6/22/07, Gary Kephart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

How is it, with the "simple math question" in place, that spammers are
still able to enter comments on my site and show up in the referers
list? Do the spammers have program which can parse the web page and then
answer those questions? If so, can we swap the math for something else
like an image with numbers & letters in it?

Gary

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