People, People.... I was just de-spamming and one of Rhymes with Right's comments came up because one of our number (*cough*-Mark!-*cough*) blacklisted "gmail.com." And no pointing and laughing, Planet Stories, because you blacklisted "google.com." (Ok, I'll admit it, I once accidentally blacklisted the word "teen" but it was an accident and I have had sleepless nights over it ever since then...)
Plus, just as a hint, if you are getting spammed from "aaa.xxxporn.com", and "bbb.xxxporn.com" and "fff.xxxporn.com" and "xyz.xxxporn.com," doesn't it just make more sense to ban "xxxporn.com" and smack 'em down before they work through the rest of the alphabet and every innocent word ever invented (which really clutters up the blacklist)? That's my opinion anyway (as someone whose browser crashes before it can list 20 thousand variations of one spammer's website). Of couse, use some judgment--don't ban all of bogsplot1 because of a few maggots...
End of kvetching....
1 Yes, I know--I call it that because I had a blog there back in prehistoric times, before the Golden Age of Munuvia (Thor bless Pixy Misa and all his issue)...
UPDATE: Well, now Eric went and blacklisted google.com, and Physics Geek blacklisted one of his own archive pages..... I took them both off, but if you folks keep adding junk to the blacklist at the rate you're going, I won't be able to load the page again before long...
UPDATE 2: Today, stotch blacklisted google.com! I may have to start sending you to bed without supper....
UPDATE 3 Eric! Google is your friend! Auuurgghh~!
Update again Billy Budd blacklisted google.com today. Maybe we should have a contest, and give the prize to the Munuvian who successfully avoids blacklisting google for 30 days....
Running Tally... Prochein Amy is now out of the running for the prize, so let's recap:
Planet Stories, Eric (twice!), stotch, Billy Budd and Prochein Amy have all blacklisted google.com in the last three days (we won't count triticale, 'cause he was saved by somebody else doing it for him). Plus, there was one mystery blacklister that someone else caught.
Anyone have any suggestions for the prize?
Posted by Susie at July 6, 2007 01:18 AM | TrackBackWhat's happening is that we are getting hit with boobytrapped spam. I came to 'iana to report that I had been too quick on the trigger, but blacklist informed me that before I told it to ban grwegwm.c-m and the other one with it, someone else had already gotten the previously mentioned search engine.
Be careful out there, folks.
My apologies. The site has been mega-spammed of late and I've been busy at work so just have been swatting it without realizing that Google was being "blacklisted".
I'll do better next time we get blasted, I promise.
I'd use the other name, but for some reason **anet gets blocked due to **.
Posted by Nameless Blog Poster at July 11, 2007 11:16 AMWhen I enter my name as Planet Stories, I get told Pl is a blocked .com. Heh. The other amusing bit was to use both **am and **mments in a comment and get told that **am dot com was blocked. Double Heh. And apologies again for churning everybody's stomach of late.
Posted by Nameless Blog Poster at July 11, 2007 01:27 PM