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One Response
Dave M.
February 23rd, 2005 at 7:01 pm
1That’s really not all that big of a surprise. If you can put these things up on a regular website, you can certainly put them up on Blogger. Should Google do something to prevent it? :shrug: I suppose, but then I would suspect that others Blogger, namely TypePad and LiveJournal should also be considering the same measures.
Blogger has had tons of problems with people setting up sites for referral spamming and comment spamming. This is just another way evil doer’s can muck-up a generally good thing.