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"Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog."

By Ann Althouse

Blogger tells me as I try to post this morning:

Your blog requires word verification

Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (What's a spam blog?) Since you're an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and we sincerely apologize for this false positive.

We received your unlock request on May 2, 2008.

In other words, I successfully perceived a set of crushed together, distorted letters and managed to type them into a box.

On behalf of the robots, we apologize for locking your non-spam blog.

On behalf of the robots = geek humor.

Please be patient while we take a look at your blog and verify that it is not spam.

Just don't ask my enemies.

Find out more about how Blogger is fighting spam blogs.

No, thanks, but I understand. You have to fight the spam, and Blogger has done a great job of nearly eliminating the spam comments that are much worse than dealing with this occasional perception ? by robots ? that I am a spammer.

But I understand that robots think I write too much.

Full post as published by Althouse on May 02, 2008 (boomark / email).