Army of Blogs
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!
I must say that they raise an interesting point. But it turns out that people have just as much of a right to not-listen as they have to talk. Search engines are under no obligation to index splogs.