On 22/01/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond(a)internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
2) Myspace blogs were recently added to the spam
blacklist by Raul per
request of Jimbo, although no one else seems to know why, how, or per
what rationale.
Because the pages themselves are often appropriate external links, but
the blogs almost never are - and there were enough of them that they
were becoming a problem in themselves.
Note that a link can still be put into the text if you leave the
http:// off the front, so that it's only text. This way a blog post
could be used as e.g. a reference should that be appropriate in a
given caes.
- d.