Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Times Online denies knowledge of link spam campaign
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Piotr Wyspianski, a manager at Sitelynx, was revealed on the Waxy.org blog to
>| have waged a one-man campaign to game web aggregation communities such as
>| Digg, Metafilter and StumbleUpon with over a thousand links to Times Online
>| stories. Before working for Sitelynx, he had form for a similar astroturfing
>| effort for his own online jewellery store.
>|
>| Predictably, the Waxy.org story has hit the front page of Digg and some
>| Diggers have piled in to condemn Times Online, blaming a conspiracy by the
>| original Digger himself. "I haven't respected The Times since Murdoch bought
>| it, since that effectively means I can no longer trust its content. Fuck you
>| old man!" wrote one.
> `----
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/31/times_online_link_spam/
>
> Microsoft does that too. Be careful, Microsoft shills. You've already been
> busted many times before (some of you below). This makes Microsoft look like
> nothing less than a media-controlling mafia.
>
There's little difference between Mr Murdoch and Mr Gates. Pity the
world whichever of them buys yahoo.
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