Flashes of Panic

Two unusual comments were embedded in today’s batch auto-moderated by MT-Blacklist. (By the way, if you post to an entry which is more than fourteen days old, or which hasn’t had a post approved in the past day, I’ll need to “approve” it before it goes up. You wouldn’t believe the comment spam which I haven’t needed to erase from pages for that reason; I just delete it from the moderation queue.)

These posts read like the goofy short e-mail messages which have virus-laden .zip files attached: “Hi, how are you,” or, “I found your site through blogspot.” They have screamingly generic email addresses at big ISPs, and include URLs to sites which match the names, but don’t exist.

In other words, no commercial message whatever. Just quasi-random noise.

What’s the point?

Update, November 9th: Ben Hammersley’s noticed the same comments. Same names and domains, as well. I’ve had several more; I’m auto-moderating them now in MT-Blacklist.

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