Last Thursday weblogs.com processed just under 2 million (1.96M) pings for the day. When we started talking with Dave Winer, owner and founder of Weblogs.com, a couple months back, the ping totals were barely half of that, and the load even then on the servers made pinging Weblogs a chancy proposition during peak posting times.
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On the back side, we see pings from Blogger. com, and an enormous number are splogger pings. Google obviously has a filtering mechanism in its own perimeter. They use search and textual analysis tools, quickly and fairly accurately, I'd say. You'd likely find two or three out of 50 that are spam blogs.