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Splogs Clog Blog Services
SuperWebTech writes "A new generation of spam has emerged lately in the form of automatically-created spam blogs, or "splogs." One wily programmer manipulated Blogger's API to create a "spamalanche" of thousands of blogs whose sole purpose was to increase their real sites' pagerank. This clogged search engine results while filling RSS feed services with useless listings. Though Google, Blogger's owner, is doing its best to fix the problem, in the meantime several services have stopped listing any site they host. So far nobody has found a solution."
Splogs are actually selling something that people might find usefull.
Blar.
I'm usually not an advocate of violence, but it seems the effective options of how to deal with the spammers is ever dwindling. I imagine after the knee-caps (or heads) of some of these spammers have been split, the problem may quickly go away.