Blog spamming: now a human right?

Not on my website...

[zCat]

I was hunting down a blog spammer in my logs and found one of the entries had been posted via this proxy:

"AEL/www.ael.be - Anonymous Proxy - We protect fundamental rights (Linux; Intel)"

If I was incrediBILL the air would be blue with four-letter words, but me being me I just snickered a little...

[mondine]

Yes, it's pretty funny how often noble phrases like this are associated with services that ooze spam like blood from the walls in Amityville.

I see this mainly in 'program' forum spammers that systematically register bogus forum memberships for the sake of a backlink in their profile, and using other information fields like "location" or "interests" to keyword-spam to go along with their link.
(At the forum I work at, these don't appear, and are unsearchable, but this doesn't deter the addition of these spam memberships; sometimes at the rate of hundreds per day.)

Just out of curiosity, I've made a rough canvas of the Providers that these people use, and "Protecting the rights of our users..." generally figures prominently in their 'service description'.