"Forum Spam" is Growing Problem
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Increasingly, spammers are fighting their way into discussions and forums on Weblogs and other kinds of Web sites. Visitors to the Future Tense site may have noticed this phenomenon recently when they discovered the discussion area swamped with spam peddling prescription-free Valium and Cialis (Don't hunt for it -- it's gone now).
Ray Everett-Church is chief privacy officer at ePrivacy Group, an anti-spam consulting firm. He says junk e-mailers are attacking Weblogs created by popular blogging software packages.