Everyone who has a blog has experienced problems with comment spam. Some have completely turned off commenting to keep from having to deal with the deluge of fake comments.

The Register has an interview online with someone in London who does comment spamming, or link spamming as some call it, and actually makes a pretty good living at it apparently. A very interesting look in to who could be behind all those Texas Hold’em comments on your blog.

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