LJ Comment Spam

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For several months, I've received occasional anonymous comments that I assumed were spam. The comments are always in response my political posts, and are always in this form:

all lowercase sentence expressing shock at the latest developments ("i can't believe this is happening!"
HEADLINE
link to an article on Faux News

I finally got around to setting my LJ to screen anonymous comments and record the IP of the poster. I accidentally unthinkingly deleted one last week, but this morning I got another. It's from 206.15.101.139. Network Solutions Whois tells me this:

206.15.101.139
Record Type: IP Address

OrgName: News Corporation
OrgID: NEWSC
Address: 1211 Avenue of the Americas
Address: 7th Floor
City: New York
StateProv: NY
PostalCode: 10036
Country: US

Morons. They aren't even smart enough to spam from a disguised server.

Unfortunately, LiveJournal doesn't allow you to ban comments by IP. So what recourse do I have now?

Comments

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This has been happening to other blogs as well:

http://bloggerbeer.blogspot.com/2006/08/comment-spam.html

I know it's shown up in at least a couple other places, but I don't have my feed archive at hand to find the mentions.

My guess, it's a bid to boost their rank in Technorati and other indexes.

(Reposting comment because agrumer had posted the Ed Cone link already.)