{"id":7584,"date":"2005-01-31T10:14:01","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T17:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/01\/31\/nothing-personal-nothing-personal.html"},"modified":"2005-01-31T10:14:01","modified_gmt":"2005-01-31T17:14:01","slug":"nothing_persona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/31\/nothing_persona.html","title":{"rendered":"Nothing personal?  <em>Nothing personal?<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating &#8230; and infuriating &#8230; interview with an anonymous <s>comment spammer<\/s> <s>link spammer<\/s> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/01\/31\/link_spamer_interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">search engine optimizer<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">If you&#8217;re affected by this spam, say because you run a blog, or a website, or like the other 99.9 per cent of Net users just come across the stuff, Sam explain the important thing to remember is it&#8217;s nothing personal. 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Wait, let me get my baseball bat, first &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating &#8230; and infuriating &#8230; interview with an anonymous comment spammer link spammer search engine optimizer. 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