blogspot is not a total waste

[Lew]

For a while now I have been calling blogspot.com "blogspot.spam" because of
all the nasty spammers who use it for their plagiarized, poorly-written crap
that they try to sucker us newsgroupies into. Others have told me not to
blame blogspot just because it makes mid-nineteenth century Colorado look like
a bastion of lawfulness.

Reviewing the latest from NetBeans (www.netbeans.org) I got linked to
<http://sunnytalkstech.blogspot.com/2007/09/netbeans-60-ide-to-own.html>
which is actually a Java-relevant discussion of the new version of NetBeans.
(It's about a product, but it's someone's personal experience and it's a free
product.)

OK, corral my preconceptions and toss'em out. blogspot is abused, but I guess
not to blame.

 

[Andrew Thompson]

For a while now I have been calling blogspot.com "blogspot.spam" because of
all the nasty spammers who use it for their plagiarized, poorly-written crap
that they try to sucker us newsgroupies into. Others have told me not to
blame blogspot just because it makes mid-nineteenth century Colorado look like
a bastion of lawfulness. ...
OK, corral my preconceptions and toss'em out. blogspot is abused, but I guess
not to blame.

In regard to the spammers, do you make use of the 'Flag'?
<http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42517>

Does it cause the material to disappear quickly?
(I am a little skeptical their 'Flag' would be effective
for plagiarists or spammers - it did not seem to
allow any inclusion of comment as to what was
objectionable.)

--
Andrew Thompson
http://www.athompson.info/andrew/

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[Lew]

In regard to the spammers, do you make use of the 'Flag'?
<http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42517>

The "flag" requires that one have navigated to the spammer's page in order to
flag it. I don't usually bother to visit these spammers' pages, except to
identify if they are plagiarizing and to so report to the group if they are.
I don't bother doing even that if the spam is obviously commercial, but for
the "interview questions" and "Java ebooks" and like spammers I sometimes do.