Spam in RSS
Today, another feed bit the dust. No, not because it was unoriginal or dead but because I was starting to get headlines such as "Free Golf Clubs" and "Drop fifty pounds and gain seven inches NATURALLY". Mind you, this was a feed that wasn't used too often and had seen their "news" content drop fatally over the past 30 days.
I'm starting to wonder if spammers are pushing content out for a while on a valid feed, then just drop the news one day and start pushing Viagra 24/7. The vast majority of people will obviously delete the feed but you know that there's 1% of the populace out there that will buy...