Smart marketers don’t sell spam…

The New York Times has an interesting piece about email spam yesterday and the efforts to combat it. I’m running into the same thing here on the blog with more comment spam than you can imagine. I get literally two spam comments for every one legitimate one. I’ve now had to ramp up my filters, so if you don’t see your comment at first, assume that the filter ate it. I check daily, so I’ll get to it by the end of each day. I think the search engines ignore these tricks, which makes me wonder how these folks benefit from the comment spam. Surely these folks don’t get results, right?