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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Blogger: Spam
Noticed Blogger is requiring CAPTCHA verification on posts for one of my blogs now. This concerned me a bit, as it could affect some creative projects I've been working on, like the following:
http://tgasandbox.blogspot.com/
Finally found an explanation for the new obstacle:
http://buzz.blogger.com/2005/10/on-spam.html
As I figured, spam-related. I notice I don't get the CAPTCHA field here when trying to post. The blog I'm getting it on is a new one, so maybe it's a sort of probationary thing for new blogs.
Blogger has started compiling a list of deleted spam blogs:
http://buzz.blogger.com/deleted-subdomains-2005-10-17.txt
Interesting reading.
http://tgasandbox.blogspot.com/
Finally found an explanation for the new obstacle:
http://buzz.blogger.com/2005/10/on-spam.html
As I figured, spam-related. I notice I don't get the CAPTCHA field here when trying to post. The blog I'm getting it on is a new one, so maybe it's a sort of probationary thing for new blogs.
Blogger has started compiling a list of deleted spam blogs:
http://buzz.blogger.com/deleted-subdomains-2005-10-17.txt
Interesting reading.
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Supposedly, blogs with few posts - and I have 300 in one year - but with a lot of links have been shut down without any prior warning by Google. Even Microsoft at its worst has never screwed over its customers this badly.
Now as I write a blog about the media - most of my posts link to the articles I am write about, hence I have a lot of links. But Goggle has now decided to censor my views and no longer allows me to post.
All I get is this:
006 Please contact Blogger Support.blog/46/41/4/lacowboy/index.html
Except - there is no way to contact anyone at blogger support...
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Brady Westwater