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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Friday, December 09, 2005

"Ping!" Oh, I feel better now. (Or not)

Message received from Blogger no more than two minutes before I was going to leave for the post office to mail that letter:
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Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:38:56 -0800
From: "Blogger Support"
To: andrew.rich@project-insomnia.com
Subject: Re: [#334514] Blogger.com account missing

Hello Andrew,

Upon further review of your blogs and account, we'd like to inform you that we've decided to restore access to your Blogger account. To regain your password, please visit:
http://www.blogger.com/forgot.g

Please note, however, that we have removed the blog that was flagged as spam from your account, as spamming is not permitted under Blogger Terms of Service (http://www.blogger.com/terms.g). Additionally, please be aware that Blogger reserves the right to remove those blogs (and the associated account(s)) which are setup either automatically or manually for the purpose of manipulating search engine results or generating revenue or traffic through deceptive means. Such behavior is not looked upon favorably.

Sincerely,
Blogger Support


Original Message Follows:
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From: andrew.rich@project-insomnia.com
Subject: Blogger.com account missing
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 18:23:41 -0000

I have been trying to get through to someone with authority to reinstate my account, which was removed with no explanation other than a vague reference to Blogger's TOS. I have reviewed the nine blogs linked to my account and have not found anything that appears to violate the TOS. I have not received any additional response from Support explaining what the problem actually was.

I would very much appreciate a personal reply as soon as possible. My account has now been disabled for two weeks.

The account name is "SmartWatermelon". Thank you.
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Indeed, my account is now active again. I've re-published the six posts I did manually during the suspension period and am posting this through the Blogger.com interface.

Now just in case anyone was wondering: No, this does not solve the problem. The problem is that Blogger.com's TOS gives them the authority to terminate an account at any time for any reason, and they feel no compunction about using that clause, without so much as a warning. I will be installing Moveable Type this weekend and migrating my content. I'll control my own Web sites from now on, thank you very much.
|| Andrew, 3:26 PM || ||

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