My recent blog post Windows Azure + Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) = true got reposted by my good friend Glenn Block: Meffifying Windows Azure. This of course made my little blog attract an unusually large traffic. I have a few posts like that (depending on how search-attractive the content is.
But anyway:
It’s not that I get HUGE amounts of comments on my blog. A few now and then which is always appreciated. I have the comment review function switched on meaning I get a message when ever I get a comment on my blog and I get to authorize it or mark it as spam and so on.
Anyway (can’t seem to get to the point today):
I get a little exited when ever I get a new comment on my blog because it means some one else actually took the time to give me a shout out about the content of one of my posts. Then I get a little sad/annoyed when some of these actually turn out to be spam making it through my spam filtering service.
However this piece of spam caught my eye as I feel it was pretty intelligent after all. The comment text was:
“I have been playing with MEF a little bit and see a huge potential for it...I'm now just trying to wrap my head around all of the various possibilities, so the links in this post are a big help because its hard to find much online about MEF.”
OK – so I figure it’s just a shout out saying – hey man; appreciate your blog post.
NOT!
Turns out the sender was “Texas Holdem Poker Tournaments” and the link from the sender aimed at a poker site. Unless there was a developer sitting at an online gaming company,using MEF, reading my blog post, deciding to comment back – unlikely. Then this was actually a comment bot making a post to my blog hoping to slip in a comment on my blog with a spam link.
Pretty sweet actually. The ingenuity of these guys never seizes to amaze me. THIS post I do hope the guy who wrote the bot actually reads (That’s why I entered his text in my blog post). Good work man – almost fooled me.
Cheers,
M.
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posted @ Monday, July 20, 2009 12:30 PM