Update : Rick, the Tony Soprano of the Mountain View blogspot world, got my old blog turned back on. 4 months I tried, took him a few hours when i was asleep. So he’s lost me from blogger to wordpress, but I’m using feedburner… the wheels of the world they turned. But is there anyway to divert my old blogspot atom feed subscribers to my new feedburner one ? No idea what has happened to imnotantisocial.blogspot.com - Unless she or hackers just deleted it ? Very strange….

Dear Rick,

The Inauguration today was amazing, not just to Americans, finally u have that simpelton out of the Oval Office, and some brainstrust can start the repair, innovate and grow mantra/execution.

You may be able to help me while we’re on a good vibe : So on September 13th 2008, I got an autogenerated email from google saying that my multi-thousand post top 100 aussie blog that I never ran an ad on incl adsense, 4 year adventure, benbarren.blogspot.com - had been classified as a spam blog, ‘many apologies‘ said the google autogenerated robot with no person with an email reply; “Within 2 days, we’ll resume your blog to normal.. or delete it in 20 days.” - Well Rick Klau, we had a conference call or two in 2005 (u may or not remember, was a gr8 call) when u were at Feedburner about bringing service out to Australia.

Unfortunately, google seem to be successfully stuffing up feedburner but im still using it for my new blog! Now I can empathise/aspire to a 7 figure earn out but maybe u can help myself and others in this googbot_autoclassification_as_splog (there are many) We’d love to get our blogs back from autoclassified googlesplogbot (tip1 - clean out all the old false autosplog classification queries like this on blogger forum that have not yet been resolved, will take an admin less than one day) Many of us try the blogger help forums but no1’s home

I cant update my benbarren.blogspot.com blog for 4 months now - I’ve had to tell people verbally which when u think about it is crazy given 75% of my audience WAS global ! (I cant update my blogspot in anyway which is so annoying u dont believe) I’ve come to my new self hosted benbarren.com address on wordpress. But that doesnt help with the thousands of visitors and rss subscribers I’ve lost, not to mention income. Heck if google thinks im a spammer, some people dont want to disagree with the borg.

I won’t even talk about commercial contracts I couldnt comply with for above domain, or clients that asked “Why arent you blogging?” - 6 months later. The fact I cant get control of my blogspot back and leave a message back ere, really pisses me off. And given I spent 4 years building an RSS readership, u’d understand that I want to port them to my new feedburner feed yeh ?

I only write this, because I’m very zen about my life.. so be it.. but I went to an upncoming Melbourne fashion blogger today ImNotAntiSocial.blogspot.com - heck she may have without notice shifted to wordpress, facebook, typepad etc - but i sense a bigger problem.. anyway Rick can u help - and confirm to the google blogspot spam bot robot I aint a splog’bot, and if indeed the same bot  has imnotantisocial.blogspot.com in her sights, well release her to, she’s 23 endorsed human.

Oh and rick congrats’n'all that on google/feedburner, even if GOOG is iteratively post acquisition, wrecking feedburner services : Understand platform shifts in large companies arent exactly smooth sailing. Congrats on taking over product side of Blogger, damn u must be in charge of largest user generated blog community in world ?

Just watch that autoclassify splog robot. Some of us are humans, who creatively + commercially depend on our blogs. So, arbitrarily classifying blogs as spam, with no feedback, ruling, contact points.. um it kinda sux. And u r Tony Soprano now

Also, not sure what has happened to imnotantisocial.blogspot.com - but um I hope its not what happened to me. I wasn’t going to say anything, but when it starts happening to those around… um given u only took your great new job in January of this great new Inauguration 09 year.. I thought u might want to help…

Thx for anyhelp however u can, in getting benbarren.blogspot, imnotantisocial.blogspot.com (if it is indeed also spam classified - i may be totally wrong) but i’d hope more importantly u could learn more about the bot crawling technology that just shuts down real blogs without ability to even post to your audience that u have been locked out, or port your feed subscribers to feedburner, now owned by google.

Best and congrats again, BB