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Spam Headlines from Blogger?
Blogger is great. Blogger is free, and easy, and a great way for people to dip their toes into blogging.
But Blogger does one terrible disservice to the world. If you delete your blog, the username for your blog immediately becomes available for anyone to grab.
So there are spammers that lie in wait, trolling for blog usernames that have been abandoned. Those spammers then dump spam into their RSS feeds - flooding LeftyBlogs with their crap.
So, if you see a blog that's suddenly spewing spam - post it here. Be sure to include what state it's in. And we'll get rid of it pronto.
And if you know anyone that works at Google/Blogger, let 'em know about this. There's an easy fix -- just disable those usernames for a year or more. (Users will stop downloading the RSS, aggregator sites will turn 'em off, and the Google Rank will fade. The incentive for spammers will disappear.)
Posted by Kari Chisholm on November 17, 2006 12:15 AM
Comments
http://www.ditzydemocrats.blogspot.com is now a spam blog (Virginia blog roll)
Posted by Rob at Raising Kaine on November 19, 2006 06:27 AM
"http://ditzydemocrats.blogspot.com is now a spam blog (Virginia blog roll)"
Yep! I really liked that one too :-(
Posted by Terry on November 22, 2006 06:06 PM
Well, it finally happened, I clicked on one of these things and got malicious spyware, and have gotten a virus on my computer as well. I've posted on the blogger help page about it, and I sure hope I can figure out how to solve it, or next I'll just contact Google directly.
Ugh!
Posted by Terry on December 10, 2006 10:04 PM
http://www.leftyblogs.com/cgi-bin/go.cgi?http://students4vogeler.blogspot.com/2006/12/isconsin.html
is a spam link...not sure what's going on.
Posted by borges on December 26, 2006 07:01 PM
I am in the process of moving my blog from Typepad to Blogspot. The price is right, and the move is close to done. I tried to change my address with you, but it didn't take.
I'm moving from http://scorpio.typepad.com/eccentricity/ to
http://scorpio-eccentricity.blogspot.com
Thanks!
Posted by Scorpio on January 20, 2007 07:47 PM
http://bluepeterblog.blogspot.com
Posted by Dave Diamond on February 19, 2007 01:50 PM
Forgot to mention - Wisconsin
Posted by Dave Diamond on February 19, 2007 01:50 PM
How about a troll blog: (or is that 'sockpuppet'?)
http://eyeonoregon.blogspot.com/ should be removed from the oregon lefty blog list.
This is a fake lefty blog. Read closer, it's an anti-minimum wage/pro free-market rightwinger disguising his posts with pseudo prog headlines and tags. And probably laughing all the way.
Posted by gerry on February 23, 2007 04:06 PM
http://liberalreality.blogspot.com/2007/04/azcentral-scottsdale.html
Posted by Zelph on April 7, 2007 04:19 PM
Forgot to note state: it's in Arizona.
Posted by Zelph on April 7, 2007 04:20 PM
http://noblesseoblog.blogspot.com/
Pennsylvania.
Posted by Bernie on April 20, 2007 05:19 PM
Looks like "Grannuaile" has been taken over by the spammers. This is in Arizona.
http://grannuaile.blogspot.com/2007/05/airmiles-airline-ticket-ca.html
Posted by Zelph on May 19, 2007 10:56 AM
http://candyland10.blogspot.com/ - Michigan blogroll, is complete spam.
Posted by LiberalLucy on May 26, 2007 07:10 AM
http://truthinourhouse.blogspot.com/
Pennsylvania
Posted by Bernie on June 3, 2007 07:06 AM
http://revitalizesddems.blogspot.com/ - Now peddles baby gift baskets
South Dakota
Posted by sdmoderate on June 25, 2007 07:08 AM
http://progressivevermillion.blogspot.com
Spamming away, please cut them off!
Posted by Robbinsdale radical on October 2, 2007 12:02 PM
Sorry, http://progressivevermillion.blogspot.com
is in South Dakota.
Posted by Robbinsdale radical on October 2, 2007 12:04 PM
