Spam blog = splog. My story – Why Google is the service of choice for sploggers – in technology Guardian today looks at the battle to stop the splog.
How about another view on spam? After all, I’ve written a fair bit about spam in recent months including the growing problem with splogs. Step forward Army of Blogs and this must-read post ‘you got a right to spam!’
If you’re a spamhunter, here’s what Army of Blogs has to say about you.
There are individuals with apparently enough time on their hands to hunt down these spammers, they call themselves spam hunters. They use rather questionable methods to stop the spammers. In fact they will do any thing to stop those spammers, including contacting every one from their host providers, ISP, Google, the FBI, any one they can find to complain to.
The post also includes some advice for those involved in spamming.
Compile your own list of spam hunters, their web pages, whois, ISP, email, any thing you can dig up. There really are only about a dozen or so major players, and can easily be found by Googling it a little. Take the time to read their pages, interesting reading I assure you!…If their allegations or actions cost you or your business money, and they live in the States, you can fight fire with fire and take them to court.
I think that 2006 promises to be an interesting year!
It seems that Splogfighter is now switching his attention to the AdSense accounts of spammers. Why?
Google has effectively stopped deleting splogs I report…Anyway since the sharp drop in splogs, the numbers are starting to creep back up since Google isn’t deleting splogs. This recent lack of action by Google encourages spammers and now it appears they are making a comeback.
He’s right, I think, as the number of splogs in this weekly list is on the increase.
I’m monitoring a series of WordPress-based splogs which have been around since September. Although I haven’t officially reported them, Google is aware thanks to my additional details for last week’s piece in the Guardian. While Google cannot delete these splogs (they’re not on Blogspot), it can terminate AdSense accounts.
We’ll just have to see what happens.
