No, not Monty Python, the egregious crap that pollutes your Inbox (though, really, you should take steps to prevent it ever getting that far – I favour Mailwasher).

Anyway, I mentioned, yesterday, that my email had vanished, and I wasn’t even getting Spam. Well, it’s back, and I noticed that quite a bit of it links back to Google’s Blogger.

No problem, I thought, I’ll copy the URLs and report them, so that appropriate action can be taken – hanging them by the nuts with hairy string seems about right. Not so easy, though, as there’s not way that I can see for a non-member to contact them, not without joining – not the slightest hint of a Contact Us link or button anywhere. The only breach of its ToS that Google recognises, as far as I can see, if breach of copyright, and then you have to write to the buggers, you can’t email them as a first line of contact. Their ToS don’t even mention Spam.

For comparison’s sake, I logged out of my account and had a rummage around WordPress.com – and initially found the same deal. However, rather more digging than is sensible – it’s 4 layers deep; this stuff should be accessible directly from your home page, guys** – I found that it is possible to report Spammers.

Armed with that information, I went back to Blogger to look for a similar location, but there’s just nothing there (if anyone knows how to report Spammers to Blogger, please let me know – I’ll post the info here).

A Spammer hosted by an ISP might be easier to deal with, but checking my ISP (Tiscali), suggests otherwise, as it brought me nothing but an offer to sell me Norton’s crap software.

I could have gone to the blog in question and complained, but I’m not going to, as I may well click through into a morass of viruses (something else that Google washes its hands of), and it’s not worth the risk.

** Or maybe making it hard to find discourages trivial complaints?