Getting Rid of Web Spam The Historical Way
Back in the mid 90’s phone companies were having major problems dealing with phone hackers(phreaks as they called themselves). The problem seemed hopeless to solve. The phone companies would increase their technology and that in turn would simply inspire the hackers to increase their technology. It was this hilariously vicious cycle that kept spiraling downward. The phone companies kept lobbing to increase the penalties for phone hacking and the phone hackers kept coming back and saying “We’re always going to be better than you. You’ll never catch us.” The situation seemed hopeless.
All of a sudden the phone companies did the most brilliant thing on the planet. They took all the most prominent phone hackers, the outspoken ones that taught all the other kids how to do it, and gave them jobs developing ways to stop those pesky kids. This kept the phone hackers happy ‘cus they got to play around with new security that they’ve never seen before(plus I’m sure the paychecks were nicer than they’re used to), and it kept the kept the phone companies happy because they didn’t have to worry about them anymore.
This amazingly this worked! Within 10 years the problem was almost eliminated. There is still little traces of it around today, but nowhere near the degree it used to be. Way to go phone companies. 
Lets step back a lil’ further
Back in the wild west days local ranch owners had huge problems with wild horse and cattle thieves. What did the ranchers do? They hired the horse thieves to stand watch over their cattle. No other thieves would dare go near that ranch once they found out another gang of thieves was protecting it.
Back To Today
Webspam has gotten completely out of control. It’s going beyond the limits. Google, Yahoo, and MSN have tried everything in the book. The more they increase their technology the more the spammers increase theirs. It’s this all to familiar sounding situation seems to be escalating out control.
What do you think should be done about it?
They should hire professional webspammers to develop algorythms to stop webspammers.
Good f***in answer!
Spammers have no skill, phone hackers do.
Why employ someone with no skills?
I agree with an0n. 99% spammers just use tools developed by the rest (1% from-time-to-time-spamming gods).
Best way how to get rid of things like blog comment spam is - develop your own blogging platform with you own comments.
I guarantee you will only have handful of manually added spammy comments monthly.
So, vilo, you’ve aptly confirmed the point. Hire the ones creating the tools the Spammers are using. The tools dry up the spammer find something else to amuse themselves with.
I guess that I would admit that phone phreakers stopped because almost everyone had a cell phone. So the amount of phreaking dropped with the amount of phone usage. I would say that cell phone hacking + phone phreaking today = the total amount of phreaking of before.
I personally have not touched a pay fone
for almost 5 years.
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I think that enough is to add control question like here. I added this to all my sites and I am not getting any spam. Maybe people dont know how to cout
I heard akismet is good to filter out comment spam.
Anyhow, maybe the search engines can employ these developers who develop these spam tools!
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Way to go Eli.
Has there been any known professional spammer hired by the engines?
Is there any “known professional spammer” in the industry?
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Spam is a s relevant today as it was when you posted this article.
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This kept the phone hackers happy ‘cus they got to play around with new security
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I heard akismet is good to filter out comment spam.
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Back in the wild west days local ranch owners had huge problems with wild horse and cattle thieves. What did the ranchers do?
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