I got a weird email message last night that I first thought was junk, then I realized it was actually legit! Google has some new automated system that is flagging potential spam blogs (whatever that is)  and locking out blog owners. Email message from Google follows:

Your blog at: http://gisuser.blogspot.com/ has been identified as a potential spam blog.  To correct this, please request a review by filling out the form at ...

    Your blog will be deleted within 20 days if it isn't reviewed, and you'll be unable to publish posts during this time. After we receive your request, we'll review your blog and unlock it within two business days. If this blog doesn't belong to you, you don't have to do anything, and any other blogs you may have won't be affected.

    We find spam by using an automated classifier. Automatic spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and occasionally a blog like yours is flagged incorrectly. We sincerely apologize for this error. By using this kind of system, however, we can dedicate more storage, bandwidth, and engineering resources to bloggers like you instead of to spammers. For more information, please see Blogger Help: http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42577

    Thank you for your understanding and for your help with our spam-fighting efforts.

    Sincerely,

    The Blogger Team

I was one of the many unlucky ones with my very popular GISuser AnyGeo blog http://gisuser.blogspot.com being flagged for some reason and locked! Friggin marvelous move Google.

Oh, and team Google, when you locate the Blogger team member that came up with this move, maybe give him/her a slap for me too!

For more on how others are covering this see:

• Google Blogger Meltdown? You Have Been Identified As A Potential Spam Blog
• Google Snafu Shuts Down Blogger's Site