Thursday, July 16, 2009

email of the day

Hello,

Your blog at: http://deanscircle.blogspot.com/ has been identified as a potential spam blog. To correct this, please request a review by filling out the form at http://www.blogger.com

Your blog will be deleted in 20 days if it isn't reviewed, and your readers will see a warning page during this time. After we receive your request, we'll review your blog and unlock it within two business days. Once we have reviewed and determined your blog is not spam, the blog will be unlocked and the message in your Blogger dashboard will no longer be displayed. If this blog doesn't belong to you, you don't have to do anything, and any other blogs you may have won't be affected.

We find spam by using an automated classifier. Automatic spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and occasionally a blog like yours is flagged incorrectly. We sincerely apologize for this error. By using this kind of system, however, we can dedicate more storage, bandwidth, and engineering resources to bloggers like you instead of to spammers.

Thank you for your understanding and for your help with our spam-fighting efforts.

Sincerely,
The Blogger Team

P.S. Just one more reminder: Unless you request a review, your blog will be deleted in 20 days.

30 comments:

Pat said...

Robert, mat and drl have been saying "just wait" for about 6 weeks. drl, claimed he kept a log of any "bad language" on here. I say to them, hey, are ya happy now? Do you feel better now?
Anyway, If my instincts are wrong on this, Please call me out.
And to all you Guam rats that I will always adore and never forget....seeya later :)

Ric Larson said...

Pat, and just where do you think your going to young lady? If you are true to your believes, stick around and stand to them! Be proud! That is what America is all about! (Now as you know, I don’t necessarily hold the same political or religious believes as you and about 2/3 of the bloggers, but if you believe in what your saying…stick around, blog on). Politics aside, I love reading your posts and reading your stories!

Doug said...

The man trying to keep me down.

Ric Larson said...

Doug, you’re going to have to elaborate further on your just previous written post.

"The man"??? That usually refers to the government, authorities of the government, or one that wears a shield enforcing the law. How does this effect you or Cindy?

Ric Larson said...

Correction: How does this effect you or Pat?

rac said...

Ric, Blogger has tagged our blog as violating their user agreement. They are threatening to shut it down.

Ric Larson said...

RAC, if you are truly serious about this, I can't help to ask on what basis are they threatening to shut it down?

If this is true, it is very sad.

Ric Larson said...

Wake up Ric! OK RAC, now I get it about “the man”! The one who has the authority to pull or not to pull the plug on the blog. BINGO!

Pat said...

I guess Ric, I'm feelin a little like RAC. He and Dave started this up and we all got to reunite and then someone got pissed and came up with a way to shut us down. I'm saying it's like Seinfeld... (maybe we've run our course.)Peace baby

Ric Larson said...

Not good Pat, just not good!

Doug said...

Ric,
I was being a tad melodramatic.
As to what precipitated this turn of events I don't know. i would hope that this is not content driven but rather a fairly routine attempt by Google to ferret out bandwith clogging bogus blogs.
I defer to the honorable blog creator for the rest of the story.

Ric Larson said...

I too must defer.

mat said...

It's bogus.Don't fret it.Yea Pat,way off.

mat said...

We apologize for the robots locking you out out,Weeooweeooo!hahaha.Domoarigato mister roberto.

rac said...

This is not a joke. Try making a post (not a comment). It will ask you to fill out a word verification tab (this was not the case previously). If you click the Why do I have this? link it will explain why. As to how this happened I don't know. I suppose it could have been a random robot scanning the blog. It could also have been a pissed off reader clicking the FLAG BLOG link at the top of the page.

Anyway, I have submitted a review as requested in the original email. Hopefully we will continue to read our lighthearted banter for years to come. Here is the response:

Your blog is marked as spam

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 July 15, 2009. On behalf of the robots, we apologize for locking your non-spam blog. Please be patient while we take a look at your blog and verify that it is not spam.

Find out more about how Blogger is fighting spam blogs.

mat said...

Maybe it was the Obamacam!Is this what you expected?Hahahaha.I stand by all my posts and comments.

mat said...

Well if it's for real then we might as well get it on.Conservatives WILL retake the country because liberals are pussies.
Some say that they are touchy feely and sensitive but I say "No way Palau".They are arrogant!They don't believe what they're shoveling but they think"We" do.Stupid rabbits!We have a code!Our party let us down for sure and kudos to the libs for running a better race.I can say that.However most Americans are starting to wake up and say WTF!Yuk it up while you can folks because the shits about to hit the fan.People don't want to work?"My back hurts"heres your check!"I cant think straight"heres your check.A bunch of fucking pussies.To those of you that were "badasses" back in the day.Well what do you think now?Hehehe.

Pat said...

My Mat...why the potty mouth?

mat said...

To prove a point Pat that its bogus.And if you think thats potty mouth then you lived a sheltered life.NOT!Hahhaahha.

rac said...

Well then mat, if being arrogant means I'm smarter than you, way better looking than you, tougher than you and make a lot more money than you then so be it. At least your a better cook. ;)

mat said...

Well my wifes a better cook than me but I know all the recipes and I know how to use them.Nice hoax rac.

rac said...

Mat, I forwarded the email to you I received from google. If you have the skills you can verify its authenticity. Or maybe you can ask Dave because I'm sure he got it too. At this point it looks like the matter has been resolved.

juliet said...

I think it is a random word flag. Maybe certain words are sensitive. It could have been the letter I posted from a spam email. You know where it said some thing like you won the lottery. Or something that spreads through the Youtube posts which we then download onto our PCs. Maybe Nazi or Congradulations or even Sex are filter sensitive. Anyone can flag a Blogg. For the record it was not me.

Ric Larson said...

I was also under the assumption that is either some ones sick idea of a joke or random word flag (we have that on our system at work).

Blog on bloggers! Say whats on your minds baby!

Ric Larson said...

RAC, I would never match your intellect with Mat, he would and has squished you!

Doug said...

Squished?

Ric Larson said...

Or squashed you!

Ric Larson said...

Doug, for you to come on and question my spelling of ‘squished’, I hope that you knew that I meant ‘squashed’. Can’t believe that you pulled a Jo on me dude? We are both college edumicated folk (OK, college educated people), and your questioning my spelling? In all your college education, didn’t you learn that there is no correlation between intelligence and spelling? I still love you man. But when you question my spelling, it hurts my feelings man! Heeheeee!

Doug said...

I actually was not questioning, or making light of, your spelling Ric. As far as I know you correctly spelled "squished".
I just found the use of the word "squished" kind of humorous in the context of a post comparing mental acumen.
If I were to comment on every blunt edged hatchet job perpetrated on the language by some of the wordsmiths on this blog that's all the hell I'd be doing.
That was not my intent and I meant no offense.

Ric Larson said...

I know Doug, I know! ;) Peace!