Seems this time they really are doing something about it - at least that will be the perception of the people that have been crying about it

- Comment spamming is big biz and this wont effect most of the good spammers as they know how to get to the right blogs
http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/arch...llow_tags.aspx
Is MSNs blog about the issue
basically Goog, Yahoo and MSN as well as the blog companies will begin supporting a new tag to be put in an outgoing link that will devalue the link in the SE's eyes. rel="nofollow" attribute tag is the tag they are announcing