“We think blog spam is a serious problem and we have spam detection software to try to eliminate it.  In this case, it appears that our anti-spam filters caused some Blogger accounts to be blocked from creating new posts.  While we are still investigating, we believe this may have been caused by mass spam e-mails mentioning the “Just Say No Deal” network of blogs, which in turn caused our system to classify the blog addresses mentioned in the e-mails as spam.  We have restored posting rights to the affected blogs, and it is very important to us that Blogger remain a tool for political debate and free expression.”