WOMMA Research Blog reports on a talk from Howard Kaushansky, founder of Umbria. He was speaking at the WOMMA Research Symposium

Because so much time and energy has to be put into blog monitoring to thwart their efforts, splogs are a drain on resources. Instead of working to make the blog world better and more deft, time and attention has to be spent (wasted) on splog control.

This also brings out what is lacking today in the fight against splogs. While spammers continue to collaborate on obscure forums and tune their techniques, the community fighting it is not working together sufficiently.

Thanks to Howard, this talk would have increased exposure to the general threat.

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