I had written in my previous post that the use of rel="nofollow" attribute wouldn't be all that useful in stopping comment spams. Nikolaos writes on his blog that this could also lead to the already overcommercialised Internet becoming evn more commercialised.
The fact that it happened does not surprise me but that it took so long for our network administrators to figure it out does. And if you are wondering how do you disable Gmail's chat features on your network, you only need locking DNS lookups to chatenabled.mail.google.com , by returning 127.0.0.1 .
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