I think I may have discovered a new type of spam. Rather than send out unsolicited e-mail, the alleged spammer left a "comment" on an old post (from back in the spring). Why do I think it was spam?

1. The post the comment was left on was over 6 months old.

2. The post was not terribly interesting. It was a short collection of small tidbits of trivia...actually, minutia.

3. The comment itself was "Thanks for the post." Which makes little sense, given how terribly uninteresting the post was.

4. The "name" left was a the name of a type of product, and the URL given was a page selling this product. The e-mail given was a hotmail account, which may or may not have been valid, but given the commercial nature of the name and the URL, lack authenticity.

I have deleted the comment, because I believe that it was left solely to leave behind a link to a commercial page. Comment spam, if you will. If I am in error, and the comment author would like to e-mail me and explain away the evidence, I would be more than happpy to allow that person to leave more comments in the future. However, if I find any other comments that reek of spam, they will also be deleted. This is a weblog, not a billboard.