The biggest reason why a certain blog does not attract spammers is probably because it is very small. Not using standard software helps, and if you've never run with automatic approval that is another show stopper for spammers.
For every target that is even slightly hardened there are half a million soft targets out there. Better to go after those, the ROI is higher.
If you had lots of visitors it would be worth their time to figure out a way to get in there. Think of spammers as a measure of success, if you are anywhere near successful the spammers will find you, count on it.
Not exactly, he was involved with (not an inventor of) a decedent technology of IBM's GML called SGML. A more fair attribution would be that he inventor a precursor to AJAX.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Yes, Tim Bray was involved in the development of SGML. But he's also the first-listed editor of the XML 1.0 specification.
History is more than being a name listed on the web page... That was a turbulent time back in mid nineties with a lot of things going on. You'd have to have been around and involved back then to really know what happened.
XML is a simplified subset of SGML, which as I stated was an invention of IBM.
Moot these days I suppose. A horrendous 'technology' that has seen its day pass and be replaced by considerably improved markup languages.
Er, you are off on this one. GML was invented by IBM. Tim was involved with SGML, wrote one of the first, if not the first, web crawler, and was a primary force and first listed author on the XML spec.
For every target that is even slightly hardened there are half a million soft targets out there. Better to go after those, the ROI is higher.
If you had lots of visitors it would be worth their time to figure out a way to get in there. Think of spammers as a measure of success, if you are anywhere near successful the spammers will find you, count on it.