I just received the following e-mail from someone at the aforementioned company:

Dear Sir,

Hi. Just sort of caught wind of your complaint, so please forgive me for taking so long to contact you about it. First off, let me apologize about the situation. That is definitely not what we’re trying to do.

Yes, we are a non profit and, no, we really aren’t looking to spam anyone. The thing is, because we are non profit, we have several volunteers working at home to review many of the blog submissions we have. It seems that some of them have apparently gotten a little over zealous in their efforts (it’s really not their responsibility to try to get blogs to submit).

I’ve sent each of them messages explaining to no longer post any sort of messages in blog comment boxes. I think some of them didn’t realize how anoying that can be.

Anyway, once again, I apologize. It won’t happen again. Please shoot me an e-mail if you have any other concerns or questions.

I appreciated his courteous reply, which was very different from that of the other person.