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November 7, 2009

The spam commenters are getting better

The spam commenters are getting better. Evidently there's a fake-comment generator that picks up on repeated words in a post, such as this one on Thursday's announcement of the third-quarter productivity rate. It almost had me.

Hello You have very well said about productivity and I completely agree with your perspective.Thank you very much for giving such a good information to us.

(Or maybe it was just my Mom posting again.)

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About Jay Hancock

Jay Hancock has been a financial columnist for The Baltimore Sun since 2001. He has also been The Baltimore Sun's diplomatic correspondent in Washington and its chief economics writer. Before moving to Baltimore in 1994 he worked for The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk and The Daily Press of Newport News.

His columns appear Wednesdays and Fridays.

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