BigDave - 9:17 pm on Jul 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

Anyone care to hazard a guess at the ratio of Google-antispammer-staff vs Spamming-google-for-fun-and-profit crowd?

They are amlost certainly WAY outnumbered. But I don't think that is the relevant ratio.

How many of those that are spamming-google-for-fun-and-profit are basically just a much more recent version of script-kiddies who just run things that other people think up?

How many people out there are actively trying, and are also capable of, coming up with new successful spamming methods. Not using some method that they heard about that actually works, but comes up with something new?