Michael Hutchinson wrote:
I don't know how the rest of you feel about blogspot links, but I've never seen a valid/authentic one in an email that isn't spam before.
I have. In the last two weeks, I've seen blogspot links in the Drupal newsletter, the OpenOffice.org newsletter, Fedora Weekly News, and a newsletter for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund -- all things I've signed up for.
And that's just me -- that's not counting anyone else on the mail server I manage. I set up a rule to match blogspot links, and tracked the results. It hit things like the Slashdot daily summary, and several newsletters & mailing lists that I couldn't guess whether the recipient signed up or not, on topics ranging from chess to ASP to financial news to political opinions.
And then there's people sending personal mail referencing a random blog post, or including their blogspot-hosted site in their email signatures.
We do still score blogspot URIs --- but we only add 1 point for it. Scoring at 5 would block legit mail.
-- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
