As well as the usual spam comments for online gambling and viagra that everyone gets, I appear to have developed a new rash of totally pointless ones: comments like 'Thanks for the link to this page', 'Gracis', 'Parlez-vous francais?' or 'Just had a moment and finally found your page' from people with names like Stephanie Jones and Sara Sterling. But strangely, unlike a normal spam comment which seems to be trying to get you to link to their site and buy their products, these comments have links to sites based on the names of the commenter such as www.stephjones.com which don't actually exist.

So can anyone actually tell me the point of these? It's not even like there's so many it's annoying - unlike the daily comments from top@tredgf.com, I only get one or so a week. I'm mystified.

Robert says:
James, I'm worried that your recent posts have been about a show that is no more, a friend that died, a music hero that died, a computer that died and links to websites that don't exist. Is there something you want to tell us?
posted by Robert on 9 November, 2004
 

James says:
Are you suggesting that I am dead and broken inside? I think perhaps this weblog is getting a bit existential.
posted by James on 9 November, 2004
 

Dave says:
Back to topic: You're not the only one to have noticed. More here: http://www.benhammersley.com/weblog/2004/11/09/new_comment_spam.html
posted by Dave on 9 November, 2004
 

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