Blog spam

I have Moveable Type mail me new comments from my weblog. It’s a very convenient feature, since I don’t get too many comments (hint, hint).
Late last night, I received an e-mailed comment that linked to the Nipponjin with scissors entry froma few days ago. It is spam from a manufacturer.
“[…]we are willing seriously to establish our bilateral trade relations with you as well as with your esteemed company for a long time. And also want to cooperate with you at all steps.”
First step towards bilateral cooperation: do not spam me!
Was this done by a clueless drone who is paid to paste form letters into anything vaguely scissors-related? Or is it a nefarious tool to seek out keywords on webpages and then fill in forms it finds attached to those pages? There was a spate of automated comments spam in late October; here’s an interesting article on Dive Into Mark about solutions.
I guess I’ll know if my spammer was human or automated if this post (also containing the word “scissors”) gets spammed.
Watch this space…