Some related posts from Technorati and Google.
[Grain of Salt] Splog Hunting Contest: Rather than receving a "Hey, thanks for the pointer because we feel that hosting hundreds upon hundreds of splogs detracts from the quality of service we provide as well as from our reputation," I got a short note back suggesting that I read their FAQ (which I had already done) and fill out their form. Translation: I would need to take the time to identify which of the splogs belongs to them and submit each offender's URL one by one.
[Cincomsmalltalk.com] Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants: category: spam: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3321765004 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3321765004 anon 2006-04-06T10:48:33-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Maybe it is not random, possibly a chinese encoding ?<br /></p></div> random spam? http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3321765004 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3321765004 <a href="http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/troy/blogView">Troy Brumley</a> 2006-04-06T14:42:22-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Comment by <a href="http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/troy/blogView">Troy Brumley</a></p>
[Weblog.burningbird.net] Burningbird » Silly Words: feeds set up with all the popular services, and while they return a lot of useless stuff in terms of duplicates and what-not, I only see splogs appear once a week or so. And even though I use Google dozens of times a day, I’ve never once clicked through to a splog.
[Saint-andre.com] one small voice: For instance, I keep a weblog, have a website with many pages of content, periodically leave comments at other people's blogs, am associated with a public organization (the Jabber Software Foundation), post to lots of public discussion lists from a well-known email address, participate in archived chatrooms using a well-known Jabber ID, there are photos of me online, I have a PGP key, and so on. There are many ways to find me or find out about me (blog, personal website, organization website, email address, Jabber address, etc.), so that results in a larger bundle of characteristics than is associated with some random Joe who sends you a message.
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Spam, Targeting Spam