The Dead Spammers Society

I recently signed up attempted to add this blog to BlogCatalog. After hitting submit their message said that my blog would be reviewed and pending approval my blog would be added to their listing. So I waited and less than 24 hours after submission I get this:

Dear (name removed),

Thank you for submitting your blog The Dead Spammers Society (http://blog.deadspammerssociety.info/) to BlogCatalog.

Unfortunately upon reviewing your blog we are unable to grant it access to the directory.

Your blog was declined for the following reason:

* The URL you submitted is solely for commercial purposes, or is suspected to be spam.

If you believe this to be a mistake, you can login to Blog Catalog ( http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/manage_blog.html ) and change anything which may have caused it to get declined. After updating your blog, it will be put back into the submission queue.

If you have any questions/comments/suggestions/ideas please feel free to contact us.

Thanks,
BlogCatalog

So looking over this blog I am left scratching my head and saying “WHAT??”. Did they even look at the blog or did they just rejected it based on the domain and the title, or do they really think that talking about the spam problem is really just supporting spam, or being solely commercial.

Oh well their loss.

A little about me, I work for a webhosting provider. I work in the network abuse department, and I am starting this blog to help those that do not know what it is like to be on the receiving end of all those complaints that are sent in. Over time I hope this blog will help others that may not be sure how to report spam, or how to work with their service provider. I also hope to get some guest bloggers in here from different sides of the email industry.