I got a lot of comment spam recently. Since comments are moderated here for legal reasons, no one ever noticed. But boy it was annoying. By the looks of it it was some botnet. Random IPs spread across the world, posting the same kind of rank pushing junk over and over again.
It was some new kind of spam using Google Notebook as shell site. That is they spam links to a specific notebook page which in turn links to their page(s). The reason for doing so is twofold: a) Google has a high rank (no matter which search engine you use) and b) the ranking goes up if it's referenced from a high ranked site. So, it's basically the same old deal just with a booster on top.
In order to get rid of this nuisance I wrote a small module, which hopefully shouldn't get in your way. While there are several 3rd party anti spam modules, I decided to write a custom solution because they usually last longer. A single website simply isn't worth the hassle.
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