Got the following email last week:


Dear Blogger user,

This is a message from the Blogger team.

Your blog, at http://yawetag-cache.blogspot.com/, has been identified as a potential spam blog. For an explanation of what spam blogs are, please see Blogger Help: http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42577

You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog. To request a review, please fill out the form found here: !!!LINK REMOVED!!!

We will take a look at your blog and unlock it within four business days. Please note that if we do not hear from you within 20 days, we will remove your blog. If this blog does not belong to you, then you do not have to do anything. Any other blogs you may have will not be affected.

Since you are an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not spam. We find spam by using an automated classifier. Automatic spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and occasionally a blog is flagged incorrectly. We sincerely apologize for this erroneous result. By using this kind of system, however, we can dedicate more storage, bandwidth, and engineering resources to users like you instead of to spammers.

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

Sincerely,

The Blogger Team


Of course, I did what I had to, but it made me think: what about my blog and its one entry made it a "potential spam blog"? My only thought is that using the word "cache" in the URL flagged it.

Anyway, things are back to normal and I'm able to post.

Posted by yawetag on Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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Hello. I'm Andrew, a 29-year-old living near St. Louis, MO. I've been married for 7 years. We currently have one two-year-old son, Sage, with a daughter, Brenna, on the way, due in November. I am a Surveillance Operator at a casino in the St. Louis area. I've been in the casino industry for 7 years, with 5 of them in Surveillance. When I'm not working, I umpire High School baseball and softball, as well as summer leagues for baseball at all ages. I love to go geocaching, which is basically treasure hunting with GPS units. I've been geocaching since March of 2007. I have separate blogs for umpiring and geocaching. See my blog list below for links to the blogs.