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Bill, in theory, you are right, in reality, you are wrong.
The average SE spammer is working 1 cycle ahead. They are assuming that whatever is up this month is going to be toast in the next update, so they are already working on the next batch. Figure probably 10 real cycles per year, so they have 10 projects per year.
So we can bitch and moan and whine and get google to remove their domains at the end of a cycle - only to have it all replaced with another pile of spamming dung.
They are laughing at you because instead of improving your own stuff, you have been killing off what they were already assumign would be dead. That is the beauty for them to what they do - they only things exposed are at the end's of their lives anyway.
Google works as a reactive system to spam. You report spam, they look at it, they develop new tools for their algo, and they hope to kill the spam the next time around without deleting half the web on the way by.
They are 100% reactive, and 100% committed to removing spam through careful (and often convoluted) programming methods.
It's a totally bullshit way to get rid of spam.
Considering the value of Google these days, they can afford to hire a small group (20 - 40 people) to spend their days looking at the sites in the top 20 of the top 1000 searches, plus whatever domains have marked increases in pages in a given update cycle. If a domain goes from 200 pages to 125,000 pages in a month, well, it shoudl be flagged for review BY A HUMAN.
Then they need to make it so said domain can be banned and removed INSTANTLY (or as instantly as possible) rather than having it slowly fade out over a 30-60 day period.
Google really blows at this point, and it's getting worse instead of better.
Alex
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