I don’t really understand the mentality of spammers. What are their inane “comments” supposed to accomplish?

Take this one, which was attached to an earlier post about heroic dogs: “While researching for kennel training dogs on Thursday, I came across your blog and post regarding Marc the vet : Aversive Dog Training Techniques”. This has absolutely nothing to do with dogs that save people’s lives in Haiti, and nowhere on this site do we talk about Marc the vet, whoever he is.

Or this one: “The Major Indoor Soccer Society’s Milwaukee Breaker announced brain tumor Wednesday presumptuous MarcoTerminesi has been placed on their injured hoard record”. At least three copies of this paragraph of gibberish were slapped onto Chester’s Blog in hope of being published. Sorry, that’s what a spam filter is for.

And then there are the ones that come from Russia. You can tell they’re from Russia because the Cyrillic characters have changed to all question marks and the address is .ru.

I don’t know what these people hope to gain by trying to catch a ride on our coattails, but it ain’t working! We actively monitor the comments that come to Chester’s Blog.  If you have a legitimate comment and aren’t trying to make a sneaky attempt to publicize your business (what does auto insurance have to do with dogs?), we’ll publish it.