What are these?

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  alexfromitaly · Member · Jun 24, 2007 at 9:35 pm

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  This is an example of some odd ‘comments’ that Askimet is catching:
  ro323ck | (email visible only to moderators and staff) | b6912.searchik.info | IP: 83.222.23.227

  m867k

  They seem to come from Lookuplive.com. Does anybody know what these ‘comments’ are? Should I dump them as spam, or is this some kind of indexing system, or, worse, an attack? I don’t think I will make these things public, as they have no actual content.

  Thoughts please.

  Alex

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  drmike · Member · Jun 24, 2007 at 9:37 pm

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  Spammer. IP address resolves in Russia.

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  alexfromitaly · Member · Jun 24, 2007 at 9:52 pm

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  OK, thanks – I shall delete or let the things be deleted automatically. Any idea what the funny code thing is all about. I mean, what the heck is ‘m867k’? Or are they just getting people to go to Lookuplive.com to up page impression and click through rates?

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  drmike · Member · Jun 24, 2007 at 10:07 pm

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  I’d go ahead and delete them as Akismet is already recognizing them as spam. All Lookuplive.com is a spam site and I wouldn’t worry about it. the m867k is just some garbage the spammer threw in there to give it some random content.

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  alexfromitaly · Member · Jun 25, 2007 at 12:13 pm

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  Thanks Mike – I shall bin the things.

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  drmike · Member · Jun 25, 2007 at 5:16 pm

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  Not a problem. :)